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Font Issues with iWorks and OS Mountain Lion

I upgraded to Mountain Lion a few days ago and have not needed to use my iWork applications until this morning.


After opening my Pages document to write a new file I discovered that all my favourite fonts, which are non-Apple standard, do not work properly. Spacing is wrong the look is wrong, basically it just looks a mess.


Does anyone else have this issue with non-Apple standard fonts? I really need to have a fix for this as I use my keynote presentation software and I have discovered that my standard company fonts are not working in my 500 slide presentation. (Don't worry this is for a two day, 16 hour presentation) and I really do not fancy the idea of going through every single slide to change the font!!!!


I would really appreciate some help, if anyone can help me.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion, 27 inch - 8GB memory - 1T HD

Posted on Jul 28, 2012 9:56 PM

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Jul 28, 2012 11:19 PM in response to Carl Pullein

What do you mean by "non-Apple standard"?


We are terrible at guessing. Disregarding the occassional fluke.


I convert all the fonts I use to .otf using Font XChange which has been well worth the money I paid for it.


I do not believe in making a system work harder than it needs to, and kissing goodbye to the old font formats has been one of the joys of OSX and modern operating systems.


Peter

Jul 29, 2012 12:02 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Yes, I am running Ml and Pages 4.2.


Also, this does not just effect Pages. It also effects Keynote.


A bigger problem font is Myriad Pro otf. This is completely illegible. At least with MetaPro you can actually read the words, althought the spacing between letters is irregular.


The only fonts that seem to work are ones that come with the OS.


Not good for designers who have to use different fonts for their work.

Jul 29, 2012 12:53 AM in response to Carl Pullein

Carl


I also am a designer and long ago learnt not to jump in feet first especially to anything version zero.


I'm standing back and waiting for the dust to settle on Mountain Lion. Lion suycked big time and I kept it only installed on an external HDD and will do the same for Mountain Lion before it can join the big boys on my internal HDD.


It is not unusual for there to be numerous teething problems with new OSes and unfortunate that the early adopters are going to be unwitting beta testers. If it is any comfort yours appears to just another reported glitch and it has only been out 3 days.


Peter

Jul 29, 2012 1:37 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Hi Peter,


I have just tested my MB Pro laptop to see if the problem was computer specific rather than OS specific and I find that fortunately this seems to be only effecting my iMac. My MB Pro is working fine and all fonts are working fine.


So I do not think it is a Mountain Lion problem. It seems to be my iMac's response to ML.


I shall reinstall iWork and see if that fixes the issue.

Jul 29, 2012 8:20 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Here's what I have tried throughout the day.


Reinstalled ML 10.8, repaired disk permissions and rebooted - Still have problem

deleted caches, extensions and preferences - Still have problem.

Deleted and reinstalled iWorks - still have problem.


As I mentioned above there is no problem with my MB Pro - all fonts work perfectly. My MB Pro is almost a mirror image of my iMac as I use Dropbox to store all documents. Essentially my computers just hold the software.


There is only one account on my iMac so I am unable to try a different account. Perhaps tomorrow I could create a guest account and try that.


I am running out of ideas now :-(

Jul 29, 2012 8:52 AM in response to TildeBee

Hi Bee,


Yes, I cleared font caches with Onyx and still had the same problem.


I have also verified the fonts using Font Book and all fonts are fine.


I checked both fonts in the new Notes app and they work fine. This seems to be problem only with iWorks and I have installed a fresh copy of iWorks and made sure the copy is the latest version.


So tomorrow, it's nearly 1am here, I am going to use my Time Capule and restore the computer back to Lion and begin the process again.

Jul 29, 2012 5:17 PM in response to Carl Pullein

Font Book's database probably got damaged when upgrading to Mountain Lion.


The following will completely reset Font Book and clear all cache files.


Restart your Mac and immediately hold down the Shift key when you hear the startup chime to boot into Safe Mode. Keep holding the Shift key until you see a progress bar towards the bottom of the screen. You can let go of the Shift key at that point.


OS X asks you to log in (you will get this screen on a Safe Mode boot even if your Mac is set to automatically log in). Let the Mac finish booting to the desktop and then restart normally. This will clear Font Book's database and the cache files of the user account you logged into in Safe Mode.


Now to clear the system's font cache files.


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


Terminal will then ask for your admin password. As you type, it will not show anything, so be sure to enter it correctly.


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

Font Issues with iWorks and OS Mountain Lion

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