I am seeing the type replaced with an "A" inside a box on multiple websites.
I've rebooted my system and still seeing the same error.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
http://futurejosh.com/downloads/screen1.png
Safari 5.1-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)
For me same : Turn off and delete Helvetica Rounded in Suitcase Fusion 3, then restart. Problem resolved! Thx mr_proud!
Ray-
As much as I dislike tinkering with the internal files this fix solves the problem. I got sick of waiting for Apple to fix the bug and I want to continue to use my Font Explorer.
Kurt, what fix are you referring too?
This issue is not fixed in 10.7.1
You had posted a link to a fix which involves modifying the webkit file. I hate messing with system files but the fix worked. After a restart OS X was correctly seeing FontExplorer's folder in Safari And fonts displayed properly.
I believe the link you posted correctly identifies the problem and gives a temporary solution which will be moot when Apple updates the webkit to see the font mananger programs.
Kurt
I don't know if this will work for anyone else, but this has worked for me on my 2009 MBP and 2008 MP which both have FontExplorer installed and active. I did a clean install of 10.7 the other day to try and resolve some other issues and found that the font issues had dissappeared. Then when I updated to 10.7.1 yesterday they reappeared.
This morning I decided to give Starting up in Safe Mode a go on the MP, let it boot up completely and then restarted normally. I then checked pages where I was having the font display issue, such as IE6 Countdown and the fonts were displaying properly. I then repeated the procedure with the MBP and got the same positive result.
Hope this might prove useful for some.
I think the problem will continue to appear until the webkit fix is applied. I am having no problems after several restarts.
Kurt
osX Lion ***** A BIGGUN!
IMHO.
(and I'm a mac fanboy!)
laundry list of problems
Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to become a windows user, but... this release feels about as buggy as OS 10.1 (or, whatever aqua's number was).
C'mon Apple, Steve may have resigned, but you still have a job to do!
get the crap working!
love,
pete
Pete Goode wrote:
C'mon Apple
Pointless to post this stuff here where only other users read it. Give Apple the details via the channel they have set up for that:
I had this issue a lot of the "keyboard A's", even way back in testing Lion. As you say, it only happens in Safari.
A lot of people have blamed Font Explorer X but I've never used that, preferring Suitcase instead. I did the usual thing of cleaning font caches from the system and from Suitcase and this indeed works... for a short while.
What finally fixed the issue for me permanently was deleting all older style Postscript fonts from the system and only using TrueType or OpenType fonts.
I haven't had a problem since.
Unfortunately that's not an option for many designers who have older typeface libraries. I have Bitstream's entire Type 1 library and I am loathe to re-buy these fonts in another format.
Kurt Weber wrote:
I think the problem will continue to appear until the webkit fix is applied. I am having no problems after several restarts.
Kurt
It's a mess on my Mac at work, using FontExplorer. It's a thing of beauty on my brand-new iMac at home, which has no font management software other than FontBook. Man those new iMacs are really smokin' fast.
Rest easy my friends, for I have the solution to all your Safari font problems.
Manually adding the path to the webkit for Font Explorer or Extensis, or whatever Font management software you are using, fixes the problem, at least for me. I have not had a single Safari font problem since doing it. No more block letters period, and I have tons of different style fonts.
Deleting the font cache is a only a temporary fix and removing "problem fonts" is as iffy. To me, the key clue that it is not a font problem is that Firefox does not have the problem on the same pages.
Kurt
Worked for me. I can now use Safari at work!
A little anxiety editing system configuration files, though, but having the backup handy was reassuring.
Font problems in Safari 5.1 (Lion)
