Font problems after 10.6.7

Microsoft Apps still playing up after the update.... anybody else thinking what I am thinking ?

Hello MarieC,

Office keeps its own font cache files. Depending on how you cleared the cache files, the old ones may still be there.

Close all Office applications. Remove the following files. The tilde (~) indicates your home account.

~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.browserfont.cache

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Font Cache (11)

For Office 2008, the location of the second item is:

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/Office Font Cache (12)

For Office 2011, the location is:

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2011/Office Font Cache

The Apple patch fixed my problems.

Because some people are still having problems I did an exhaustive test on Cronos Pro, the font family that I was having a problem with. I created a document in Word 2011 with one paragraph in each of the fonts in this family, there are 27 of them! I created a PDF by the simple Save As option and also by the Print to PDF > Save As Adobe PDF option since this method seems to do more work and take longer and has different dialogs so I think it uses a different conversion engine ...perhaps the job is passed off to Acrobat.

I tested all of the fonts in this family at the point size I was having problems with as well as smaller and much larger. I even specified fonts so large that they overlapped due to the vertical space setting.

In all cases the PDF looked exactly like the Word document. None of the fonts exhibited any departure from the way they displayed in the Word document except that the Light fonts when very small (12pt) tend to be a bit darker in the PDF.

I never installed the Fix others talked about on this forum, I just installed the Apple patch over the Apple 10.6.7 Leopard update.

Anyway, that is my experience for what it is worth, I rarely use the other apps mentioned on this thread as also having problems so I didn't test them.

Thanks, Kurt. You named one file I had missed, so I trashed that, but PowerPoint still freezes. It gets to the screen with the project gallelry. When I click on "Open" it freezes.

PowerPoint problem fixed - it was the PDFMakerLib 12-54-12 file. I put it in the trash and PowerPoint launched. No great loss as there are other option sfor making PDF files.

However, I still can't use Warnock Pro in any MS Office documents. I have installed Apple's recent patch, but it did not fix that problem.

If it's just the one font, I would suspect the font. Do you have a clean copy of Warnock Pro you can replace your existing files with?

What font app are you using?, the guy having trouble with Myriad surprises me. That is a very common font, and I have never had any issues with it. I find Font Book very buggy, and hit and miss across different apps. We use Font Explorer Pro, but the free version is as good, just not as many features.

Since my recent software update fonts for all of my visuals, including desktop, mail, firefox web pages.... just about EVERYTHING has become TINY. I called apple and they want $41 just to talk to me about problems that originated with their software update. I'm frustrated and don't know how to return things to normal. And since the update was blindly forced on me, I don't see why I have to pay ANYONE to get this fixed.

Brian H.

And since the update was blindly forced on me

You know you can turn off automatic updates, right?

Try this:

Close all running applications. From an administrator account, open the Terminal app and enter the following command. You can also copy/paste it from here into the Terminal window:

sudo atsutil databases -remove

This removes all font cache files. Both for the system and all user font cache files. After running the command, close Terminal and immediately restart your Mac.

OK, I hate to admit it, but even after using my macbook Pro for 4 or 5 years, I'm not savy about software. Consider me a newbie. I'll try and follow your instructions, but I'll be following blindly.

Kj,

I installed your font fix package and now my MBP is no longer booting ..

I am running OS X lion with all the most recent updates, but have an issue when printing from preview...

any ideas on how to resolve this? (apart from restoring with TM)

David

That installer was never intended for Lion, that was a sno-leopard only fix, that actually got fixed by Apple some time ago. You may need to re-install Lion.

Yes, I figured as much ... I did not carefully read the topic ...

I am restoring from my TC as we speak ... (6 hours and counting)....

* fingers crossed * 🙂

MBP has been restored successfully .. TimeMachine is amazing 🙂

I have installed acrobat Reader to cope with the printing issue I have with Preview.

Too bad, as I like preview a lot ....

with regards,

David

I'm having the same "ERROR: invalidfont" promblem on Mac OS Lion 10.7.1. I started having the problem in 10.6.7 but didn't see the info on the Font update until now.

What do I do now? is there any value in installing the 10.6.7 Font Update if I'm running 10.7.1? I bet that sounds like a stupid question but I really don't know.

The PDF document that this problem appears in is a key document in my industry. Boy, I'm I regretting upgrading to Lion.