Printing issues 10.6.7

I'm glad FEX could fix it for you 🙂

It is probably worth mentioning that it's free for 30 days...

Same problem here. My iMac only prints graphics - no fonts - on my Canon LBP7200Cdn. This seems to have started after upgrade to 10.6.7. My MBA, still running on 10.6.6 prints fine on the same printer.

Seems like I have to downgrade to 10.6.6. on the iMac. Shame on you, Apple!

Same problem, can't print to Canon IPF 605 from any app. Is there an apple bulletin on how to downgrade to 10.6.6? I don't know how to do this without losing some of the work I've got.

Is there an apple bulletin on how to downgrade to 10.6.6?

Its not too bad to take the system back with 10.6.

1. Clone the disk to back up your 'working system'
2. Deauthorise any software that needs it (e.g. Adobe CS suite, Filemaker Pro). For me Microsoft Office 2011 made it through the process without needing any further action
3. Install 10.6.x
4. Upgrade to 10.6.6 with the combo updater
5. Reauthorise your software

HTH SS

OK folks, here is a fix that worked for me: the 3.31 CAPS driver for Canon.

http://support-sg.canon-asia.com/contents/SG/EN/0900772201.html

Before I had CAPS driver 3.30, which, after my upgrade to OS 10.6.7. messed up my Canon LBP7200Cdn. i
It would only print graphics, but not a single character from any font. After installing the CAPS 3.31 it prints as before. Whew! 🙂

We received Snow Leopard yesterday. I planned on doing the installation on our three Intel Mac workstations today. I read that there were issues with OpenType fonts not rendering correctly in 10.6.7 so I opted for 10.6.6 instead. It made sense to me based on the discussions on this support forum. Anyhow, After installing the base 10.6 from DVD and then installing the 10.6.6 combo update, and running Software Update, I find that there is a problem with OpenType fonts in 10.6.6.

I verified the fonts with FontAgent Pro. They are fine. They display correctly in the font browser. However, when I open a recent file in InDesign CS5, half of the OpenType fonts are not found. What gives? We depend on these computers for our livelihood.

Please help me get this sorted out.

Started having issues this week. First a pdf file would not print, getting a font definition error on my xerox printer. Tried a lot of things mentioned here, no help. Found the problem solved by using Adobe Reader instead of Preview. Then had the same problem from Word (font was Myriad)could not print if that font was in the text.

Do a lot of printing from Preview, do not like the way that adobe handles printing, but...

Hope this gets ironed out.

By the way FontExplorer did not help. By the way, this problem started after I down loaded Adobe Reader. Ummm?

I can confirm that the "definefont" issue has got nothing to do with the OS version. It is actually a problem with the latest refresh if the i5 / i7 series machines (tested 10.6.6 and 10.6.7) We have just gotten around 10 new MacBooks with this problem, before the refresh, the machines we were buying did not have this problem. There is no fix for it unless you stop using the offending font (Trade Gothic Bold No. 2 in our case) Which is not right, we use the exact same font of several hundreds of other older macs and is an official company font. We are using Fuji Xerox and HP printers, it doesn't seem to matter which printer you use. I have narrowed it down to a combination of the new i5's / i7's(maybe more?) + OSX 10.6.6/10.6.7(maybe all versions) + any postscript printer driver. I hope Apple release a fix for this very soon in an OS Update. obviously it is a bug in the new sandybridge architechture to do with postscript printing. C'mon Apple... This problem was not present in the several dozen i5's / i7's we have purchased before Sandy Bridge MacBooks were released.

by the "definefont" issue i mean, every time i print anything using a certain font, i am getting an error printed out:

ERROR: invalidfont OFFENDING COMMAND: definefont


If anybody else is having this problem, including the people already posted in this thread, could you please tell me when you purchased this machine? and whether it is a MacBook, iMac etc. OS Version, what fonts you are using when you get this error. Try using different fonts too. And tell me also if you know, does it have the New Sandy Bridge i5 or i7 Processor? Or if you are unsure, does it have the new Intel Thunderbolt port? Try to provide as much detail of your system as you can. I am trying to figure out a workaround until Apple gets there bugs sorted out.

Thanks

I can confirm that the "definefont" issue has got nothing to do with the OS version

How can you be sure that the changes responsible were not rolled into the unique 10.6.6 that these machines needed? I cannot see a font problem being a hardware issue.

We had the same problems on different Macs (MacMini, MacBook Pro (2009), MacBook Pro (2011)) running 10.6.7 with OTF-Fonts. We solved the problem by converting the OTF-Fonts to True-Type-Fonts with FontForge (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/).

Same problem:

10.6.6: PDF printing to a postscript printer (OKI B6200): OK

10.6.7: Same PDF printing to the same printer:

ERROR: invalidfont
OFFENDING COMMAND: definefont

- repairing permissions
- 10.6.7 combo update
- disable font protection (Terminal by Hooohn)
- didn't helped 😟

Have the same problem with a Epson PS printer with the PDF, so nothing with the OKI printer driver.

same problem here with a postscript flavored opentype font after upgrading to 10.6.7 on a duo 2 core 2.53 GHz MacBook Pro Unibody. I even re-generated the font in Fontlab with no luck.

the problem seems to be with the font handling of 10.6.7. I exported the pages document as PDF and opened it in Acrobat Pro. Then printed it with the ‹print as image› option, which basically rasterizes all vector content prior to sending it to the spool. Acrobat Pro returned an error message, which suggests, that the problem is already in the PDF.

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However, when I open a recent file in InDesign CS5, half of the OpenType fonts are not found. What gives?

When upgrading the OS from Tiger or Leopard to Snow Leopard, Font Book's database sometimes gets damaged. When that happens, one common symptom is that fonts that are supposedly active don't show up in applications. The only fix is to clear it.

Restart your Mac and immediately hold down the Shift key when you hear the startup chime to boot into Safe Mode. Keep holding the Shift key until OS X asks you to log in (you will get this screen on a Safe Mode boot even if your Mac is set to automatically log in). Let the Mac finish booting to the desktop and then restart normally.

This will clear Font Book's database and the cache files of the user account you logged into in Safe Mode. Any font sets you have created will be gone. Also, all fonts in the three main Fonts folders (System, Library, your user account) will now be active, regardless of their state beforehand.

it seems that apple basically created some kind of bug with the handling of opentype (postscript flavored) fonts in 10.6.7

cnet has an article on the problem: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20048314-263.html

hopefully they will release a fix soon.