Letters disappearing on Pages file when I print!! Help!

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Letters disappearing on Pages file when I print!! Help!

I have created a flyer using Pages and I'm using a font I downloaded called "Drift Type". I have used this font before several times with no problems but this time it won't print the O's. I have saved as PDF & JPG and the O's disappear there as well, but when I pull up the Pages file they are there (just won't show up when I print). I tried it with a different letter and it works fine. I tried using a zero, but the font does not have numbers. Can anyone help me??

MacBook Pro

Posted on Oct 16, 2011 9:30 AM

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fruhulda

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Oct 16, 2011 10:36 AM in response to texasgal34

Open Type Book and validate the font. You have to look in the menus as I can't remember in which menu the option is.

Maybe you have to reinstall the font. Maybe you have to delete the font cache. Can be done with the eminent free application Onyx.

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texasgal34 Author

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Oct 16, 2011 12:02 PM in response to fruhulda

I validated the font and it's good. I am now trying to delete the cache, but I can't figure out how to do it. I Googled it and can't find instructions for OS X 10.6.8, which is what I have.

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texasgal34 Author

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Oct 16, 2011 12:03 PM in response to fruhulda

Also, tried to reinstall. Nothing has helped yet. BTW, thanks for the advice.

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Oct 16, 2011 2:10 PM in response to texasgal34

With free fonts you get pot luck as to the quality and whatever the designer has done to them.

It is possible the design has included a screen character but not a postscript/truetype vector for the glyph.

I had bought a set of fonts that cost me a complete reprint when it turned out it did not have @ character for use in emails on all the clients stationery.

Having said that I DLed the font from http://www.dafont.com/drift-type.font and checked it in Adobe Illustrator and it seems fine. DL the latest version and check it in both Pages and some other software.

Peter

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texasgal34 Author

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Oct 16, 2011 2:24 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

It works great in MS Word. I also downloaded it from dafont, so I don't know what the problem is. I got desperate and started playing around to see if I could come up with anything to fix it and I finally did. I had to turn the caps lock on and the O's magically appeared....some other letters then disappeared, so I turned them off and added them back in. It's crazy!! Thankfully, it's fixed though. I just hope I can remember what I did for next time! lol Thanks a bunch!!

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Oct 16, 2011 3:13 PM in response to texasgal34

DLed the same version? ie the latest? Fonts do get updated, in fact there is a note to that effect under the font.

It sounds to me like you may have something like auto substitution set in preferences and it is using references to parts of the font that may not exist, although without seeing what you have done I can't tell why it appears on screen but does not print.

What you have typed in MsWord and what you have typed in Pages may not be the same. You could try starting with a neutral input such as a complete alphabet typed, copied and pasted from say text only TextEdit and see what that produces.

Very likely the error is in the font and not necessarily in Pages, although the settings in Pages may be revealing the font errors.

Peter

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