Problems with Frutiger Font

Have you applied the 10.6.7 font fix?

May not help, but can't hurt to 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.

Frutiger is a third party font. Has it ever worked on your computer?

Run Font Book (in your Applications folder) on your computer and check font health there...remove any outdated or duplicate fonts as well.

You may need to determine if frutiger is compatible, check for any updated version, etc....try re-installing it again.

Delete the font a get a working one.

Hello Kurt

As far as I know, the given command clear the system fonts caches but don't apply to the cache belonging to iWork.

This one is :

Macintosh HD:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Caches:com.apple.iWork.fonts

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 12 juin 2011 11:55:14

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.7

Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community

To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !

Font Book states the problem is the 'kern' table structure and contents

As fruhulda noted, delete that copy of Frutiger and replace it with a known, good copy. There's nothing you can do to fix that one.

As far as I know, the given command clear the system fonts caches but don't apply to the cache belonging to iWork.

You are 100% correct, Yvan. That Terminal command clears font cache files in a deeply buried hidden folder, but doesn't do anything to such files created by applications for themselves. Those I know of include Microsoft Office and Quark, but don't, and have never used iWork, so didn't know about that one. I'll have to add that to my notes.

Thanks!

Hello Kurt

You aren't the first one. I passed the info to the ONYX / MAINTENANCE / DEEPER designer.

So, as far as I know, ONYX and MAINTENANCE are the only maintenance tools cleaning this cache file.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 12 juin 2011 17:45:30

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.7

Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community

To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !

For those who choose to remove their application font cache files manually, I've updated my boiler plate text as follows:

None of these require restarting your Mac, just that all affected applications are closed before proceeding. Restarting each relative program will cause it to rebuild its font cache data.

MS Office:

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 of the second item is:

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

Quark:

For version 6, the location is:

/Applications/QuarkXPress 6.0/jaws/

For version 7:

~/Library/Caches/Preferences/Quark/QuarkXPress 7/jaws/

For version 8:

~/Library/Caches/Preferences/Quark/QuarkXPress 8/jaws/

In all versions, delete the entire contents of the jaws folder.

iWork:

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWork.fonts

> Font Book states the problem is the 'kern' table structure and contents

Problems are as often as not in fonts and not in system software. While you are working in FontBook, select the font file, select Preview > Show Font Info and see what it says under the category Kind. If it says Adobe Type 1, then the font file format is technically obsolete. If you replace a font, don't replace it with Adobe Type 1, but with a TrueType / OpenType version. TrueType is Apple's trademark for fonts that don't use character substitution to draw glyph alternates and OpenType is Microsoft's trademark for the same thing.

/hh