Safari Bitstream Vera Sans font not displaying

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Safari Bitstream Vera Sans font not displaying

Hello,

I have a font display problem in Safari 4.

I upgraded to Snow Leopard and Safari 4.0.3, and web pages which specify in the CSS file:
"font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"
are not displaying properly. The entire page, except where a different font is used, is replaced with a character that looks like letter "A" with a square around it.

If I inspect the text element, then uncheck the font-family line, all characters display readably. What could be happening?

Thanks!

MacPro 2,1, Mac OS X (10.6.1), Safari 4.0.3

Posted on Oct 14, 2009 8:59 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Oct 14, 2009 9:05 PM in response to jkixonia

The entire page, except where a different font is used, is replaced with a character that looks like letter "A" with a square around it.

That character is from the Last Resort font, and normally indicates that no font is available to display the characters required. It sometimes appears in the OS menus when the main system font becomes corrupted or unavailable, but I don't think I've ever seen it on a web page. Could you provide the url?

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Answer 2

Nov 16, 2009 6:30 PM in response to jkixonia

I was having this problem, too. I fixed it by I fixed it by downloading the font via the "Download" button at http://www.dafont.com/bitstreamverasans.font, decompressing the downloaded zip file, selecting the four ".ttf" files in the Finder, right-clicking and choosing "Open With.../Font Book.app", clicking "Install Font" on the resulting window. Then, in order to clear the font cache, I did the following in a Terminal window:

sudo atsutil databases -remove
sudo atsutil databases -removeUser
sudo atsutil server -shutdown
sudo atsutil server -ping

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