pdf do not display correctly / missing fonts?

Some of my recently downloaded pdfs don't seem to display parts of them correctly in Preview (or in Acrobat Reader). Could this be due to missing fonts. I get a message in Acrobat: "Cannot find or create "last resort" font...
How do I get this font? Should I have it?

Thanks for your help,

Power PC G5 Dual 2.3, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Jun 13, 2006 8:14 AM

17 replies

Mulder

Level 6

8,990 points

Jun 29, 2006 10:28 AM in response to artek

Okay, then let's try reinstalling your System Fonts.

Use Pacifist to locate the package on the install disc, and reinstall those fonts only, which are located in /System/Library/Fonts; it's okay if you overwrite the ones already there.

Then try rebooting your system and test those PDFs again to see if that solved the problem.

Mulder

artek Author

Level 1

0 points

Jun 29, 2006 11:23 AM in response to Mulder

I used font finagler, and cleaning all the font caches seems to have solved the problem (see the answer under another post:
"fonts print and display corrupted in pdf files ")

Thanks a lot for your suggestions,

A

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