I have anomalous font issues since installing 10.6.7.
Fonts render correctly with InDesign, but printing from Word 12.2.8 or Pages 4.0.5 gives incorrect rendering with some fonts. I am trying Times Roman, Arial, Myriad pro and Minion Pro, all OpenType.
Minion Pro does not render correctly. It look good if I preview the print as PDF in Preview.
I have reinstalled 10.6.4, updated with the 10.6.6 combo and all fonts working correctly now. I guess I will have to forgoe the other features of 10.6.7 until the next release.
Fonts back! With downgrade back to 10.6.6 - 10.6.3 boot disk upgrade to 10.6.5 then 10.6.6 and reinstall canon ipf700 driver. A couple hours of life lost but happy mac pro and plotter now...
Similar issues here. Certain Fonts print garbled/jumbled (particularly Myriad Pro Regular) after 10.6.7 update. Trying to print out of InDesign, Acrobat and Preview. Screen rendering is fine.
Just a suggestion. Run a font maintenance program such as Font Doctor or FontExplorer. I found a number of duplicate fonts, bad Postscript bitmaps and a number of font problems on our six Macs. Just like so many people we have fonts from way back in the 1980's ... especially Adobe and Bitstream. Also the early Microsoft fonts were just licensed from them too. I cleaned house when I went to Snow Leopard and it made a huge different. Because we add new fonts all the time we run Font Doctor about twice a year.
I ran it before we upgraded to 10.6.7 and haven't seen any problems so far. One other thought, if you are using a font management program you might want to check if it's been upgraded. The ones we used didn't play well with Snow Leopard so we stopped using them.
Same here - well maintained systems (no duplicates, no corrupt fonts). We use a database to publish PDFs via the Apple PDF Quartz Engine and although the document open properly in Preview - garbled characters are seen in Adobe Acrobat and Reader. We use Myriad Pro and Avenir Standard (both from Adobe) and these seem particularly affected.
A bit of a disaster for us. We have downgraded our machines.
Ditto errors for me. 10.6.7, invalidfont/definefont. Application - OmniOutliner, Printer - Xerox 8550. The font is ScalaOT-Italic. I'm going to report this as well.
As a workaround, I've saved to PDF, and then used Adobe Reader to print using the "print as image" option in the "Advanced" section of the Adobe print dialog. I wouldn't hold my breath to work with any document of any significant complexity and/or length, though. Will report to Apple, and try the other suggestions mentioned here; will update if I learn anything.
To add to the printers and software which encounter problems for me after updating to 10.6.7.
Musical notation created with lilypond-book renders after update to 10.6.7 partially without note-heads; Chinese characters (Apple's bundled STFangsong) do not print from Acrobat Reader (9.4.3); the lilypond-book music notation, however, prints correctly from Acrobat Reader (but not from Preview or Skim). So leaving the impossible choice: text or notation...
No problem at all when just viewing the files on the screen, with any of the PDF viewers (Preview, Acrobat Reader, Skim).
Same problems with MacOS 10.6.7 and Canon iRC 2380i. Before that printing from Acrobat Reader, Apple Mail, Word worked seamless. Since 10.6.7 we immediately receive an error message.
Here's what we tried
- 10.6.7 Combo Update
- Re-added the Canon printer driver (both UFR and PS)
- Uninstalled Canon printer driver as described by Canon's manual
- Installed the latest Canon Printer driver
- Restarted Mac + printer
- Repaired permissions after every step
I tested all solutions and I'm working with FontExplorer Pro, but I can't print some VectorWorks files with DinOT fonts. Indesign is no problem. Very strange!!! Please Apple, fix this bug immediately!!!!!!!!
Repairing permissions/privileges is the essential step - 10.6.7 does not reset the settings properly after the installation. I had different problems on 4 machines - all root in the wrong permissions settings!
hi hooohn
as always after a software update i repaired permissions and after having the printer problems i did a pram reset, fontcheck etc. i assume most people posting the printer issue did that.
i am really wondering, if you had a problem before repairing permission and if now everything prints correctly. could you be a little more precise about that?
there is one more thing to try (from fontexplorerx.com) that I did on the machine with the printing issue to get it working:
A: With Mac OS 10.6 Apple introduced a method to the System, that monitors the System Font Folder and checks whether all "protected" System Fonts are still in place. If not, they will be copied back into the System Font directory. If for any reason the responsible process is unable to perform this task, ATS (Apple Type Services) will run on a read-only database and will only activate available System Fonts.
Please note: With FontExplorer X Pro 2.5.2 we have introduced a feature to the "Tools" Menu to disable the System Font Protection and to replay the original System Fonts into the System directory. Please download and use the latest version to solve this problem. If you are - for any reason - not able to do so, please follow the process described below.
There are two ways to solve this problem:
a. This method is the preferred way to restore your System Font directories to its original state:
If possible copy all fonts that you removed from System/Library/Fonts and from the protected folder (/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks /ATS.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ProtectedFonts/) back to these directories. Use the System Font Cache cleaning function from the FontExplorer X Pro Tools menu and restart.
b. This method is for experienced users only and will permanently switch off the font protection functionality of the System:
Please use this at your own risk and be aware that there is a good reason why Apple introduced this functionality. Some Applications will no longer start if they don’t find one or more specific system fonts activated.
Quit all running applications.
Open the Terminal application and enter the following after the prompt:
atsutil fontprotection -off
[enter] This switches off the fontprotection and should return:
ATSProtectRequiredSystemFontsSetting disabled
atsutil databases -removeUser
[enter] This removes the font cache database for the current user and
should return something like:
Removing: /private/var/folders/g7/g7JKcw83HeW1qlFfciQeVH0JJe
/-Caches-/com.apple.FontRegistry
atsutil server -shutdown
[enter] This stops the ATS server, creates a new instance and should return:
ATSServer shutdown
atsutil server -ping
[enter] This pings the server and should return:
ATSServer is running
Before that, you could also reset the printing system (right click in system preferences/printing) but I assume you tried that too...
The other machines had problems like I could not copy to the applications folder as an admin, etc. after installing 10.6.7 combo and on all repairing permissions did the job. Usually the installer should repair permissions automatically before it prompts you to restart, which 10.6.7 obviously does not do. I even got a kernel panic on a Mac Mini before I repaired permissions.
I was also having pdf problems from Vectorworks and Word. DinOT is our standard font as well and was in all the files causing problems. I ran repair permissions a few times, no luck. I downloaded and installed the FontExplorer X Pro mentioned and used the tool command to disable protection. Back in business. I didn't check to see if we had problems pdfing files that didn't have DinOT FWIW.
