Q: Font problems after 10.6.7

Thanks so much for that download, KJK555 - it appears to have fixed the problem for me! (at least in Word with Myriad Pro, which is all the testing I've done so far)

While I don't actually do much PDF-generation from non-Adobe apps, it was bothering me that I was going to have to consider font choices unless I got this problem fixed. All of my professional layout/design work is done in InDesign, which so far seems ok, again with fairly limited testing, since I only updated yesterday.

None of the other suggested fixes (deleting font caches via Safe Boot, re-downloading fonts) had worked. Yours did the trick, and I'm very grateful.

I don't know what is taking Apple so long to fix it...

Got the same problem as -mcs.

Myriad Pro Bold Condenced is screwed up when i use it in LiveType and then in Final Cut Pro

After package from KJ it works!

I've got Myriad Pro Condensed and other fonts.

Thanks KJ.

"Sometimes, I even amaze myself!"

- Duke Nukem

Thanks for the positive feedback, guys.

Kj

I can report that after installing your fix, the troublesome fonts are also now behaving as normal again in Freehand.

What was interesting about Freehand was how it actually showed me the fonts that were 'broken' after the 10.6.7 update.

As I scrolled down the font list I could actually see a preview what fonts were no longer working-  and yes it was Myriad, as well  as Adobe's own versions of Garamond (although not all wieghts of the fonts were affected - mostly the Bold and Extra Bold versions) and a few others like Cooper Black which I think came from Microsoft via Word (not certain).

Anyway many thanks KJK555, for sorting this out while we wait for the official fix.

so these changed files seem to be helping.  does that tell us anything more about the nature of the problem?  also, will there be any issues with future software updates after installing kjk555's package?

Thank you KJK555. Your fix solved my issue as well. Thank goodness!

An obscure font (a TTF called Script1 Rager Hevvy - i know, sounds great huh?) suddenly rendered out like a captcha, but only in Flash CS4. I could get it to look correct in Flash CS5 if I activated TLF Text. But that, for a number of reasons, is not the solution I wanted to pursue.

I was dreading rolling back to the previous OS version, having never done such a thing before. So I'm thrilled that the installation worked for me. Thank you again!

Hopefully the next OS patch will fix this problem but I'll be waiting for someone to give the all-clear first.

KJK555 helped me as well, insofar as I was again able to use Billings to generate readable PDFs that contain my favorite Helvetica Neue Extended fonts. 

One glitch was that after installing KJK555's patch, the previous (failing) invoices I had saved as PDFs since the 10.6.7 update - which had be viewable in Preview (if not Acrobat) started locking up EVERY app that tried to view them. Including the Finder, PathFinder, Billings, Acrobat Pro - everything. 

I deleted those files and recreated them and they work, so I'm glad... but it'd be nice if Apple provided a fix.  In the meantime, KJK555 got me unstuck!

"will there be any issues with future software updates after installing kjk555's package?"

Probably not, most likely Apple will have to update the ATS framework,

in order to correct the font problems.

If you are worried about it, simply reapplying the 10.6.7 update returns the

ATS framework back to its original 10.6.7 configuration.

Kj

Miles: The crashes are to be expected. Problem PDFs as generated by 10.6.7 will render incorrectly and/or cause crashes in both Apple's old PDF framework (10.6.6 and earlier) and Adobe Acrobat (Mac and Windows). Apple certainly could have done some more testing here.

Kj's patch is an excellent way to revert to the old PDF font behavior and obviously simpler than reverting to 10.6.6 entirely.

If you have problem PDFs created in 10.6.7, it is possible to convert them to a readable format with GhostScript as I described above, which converts the Type 1 fonts to Type 3 BTW. It's still preferable to recreate the PDFs from scratch if you can, as the conversion degrades the display quality of the fonts, although they do print fine.

Chris Ferebee

Hi KJK555

Seems your fix works fine with everyone here

I was just about to apply it but I found a seurity update has been released by apple (Security Update 2011-002)

Do you have any idea if this update will cause any interference with your fix?

Thanks in advance

Rimoun

I applied the security update a few days before applying the fix - no problems have arisen so far.

FWIW, Security Update 2011-002 does not appear to affect the 10.6.7 font issues either way. I had hoped it might resolve the problems, but that is not the case. Kj's patch is still just as relevant.

How can you determine this if you don't have Quark or Suitcase? I have mostly fonts that are True Type or OpenType True Type. I can't see any PS fonts in the Font application. However, looking at the fonts in the /Library/Fonts folder, there are several Apple font files that have .otc endings. All of these are Asian fonts that I never use (Japanese, Korean, Chinese?). Don't know if these are PS or TT fonts though. The Microsoft fonts that are installed with Office 2008 appear to all be True Type fonts. PS. I'm still running 10.6.6.

Hi arbee,

None of the fonts supplied with Office 2008 are OpenType PostScript. They are either legacy Mac TrueType suitcase fonts, or OpenType TrueType. You can see that by viewing the folder in List view, and then looking at the Kind column at the far right.

The OS labels legacy Mac TrueType fonts "font suitcase". OT TT are labeled "TrueType® OpenType® font". OpenType PostScript fonts are labeled "Open Type font".

OS X isn't exactly perfect here. I have a set of old .ttf fonts that I know for a fact are 8 bit fonts (I bought them when Windows 3.1 came out). And yet the OS labels them as "TrueType® OpenType® font".

There is no such font type as .otc. I would imagine you meant to type .ttc. That stands for TrueType Collection. Similar to a legacy Mac TrueType suitcase font, it's a font bundle containing more than one typeface in a single file.

Just to confuse everyone, the same .ttf and .ttc extensions used for the original 8 bit TrueType fonts are also used for the 16 bit OpenType TrueType fonts. And just to make sure we're all thoroughly confused, a .otf font can also be OpenType TrueType, and not just OpenType PostScript.