Garamond in OS X 10.9 radically changed

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Garamond in OS X 10.9 radically changed

Almost 90% of all our office publishing is in Garamond, thousands of files in pages, the same type face in the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. We updated one of the office MacBook Pros to Mavrick, OS X, version 10.9 and now when we open those files the font spacing has drastically changed.

I checked the font book. It is on and is comparable to the previous version.

Here is what we now have,

This is what it is supposed to be.

Is there a fix that will not require us to reformat file by file?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 5, 2013 1:18 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 5, 2013 2:40 PM in response to sbilsbury

I would try and find a copy of the old Garamond on the non-Mavericks computers and copy it onto the Mavericks computer.

I did something like this recently. Right-click on the font in Font Book and click on Show in Finder. Then copy the font from finder to a thumb drive to DropBox and load it onto the other computer.

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sbilsbury Author

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Nov 6, 2013 1:59 PM in response to AllergyDoc

Good idea. Tryed it and it didn't have any effect. Thanks

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Nov 12, 2013 9:37 AM in response to sbilsbury

I have the precise same problem. Also, it appears to be a problem unique to Pages under 10.9. My Garamond displays normally in TextEdit and Microsoft Word.

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fruhulda

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Nov 12, 2013 9:53 AM in response to sbilsbury

You can still use Pages 09. You should have it in Applications > iWork 09 folder.

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Nov 12, 2013 9:55 AM in response to fruhulda

For myself, I *am* using Pages 09. The problem occurs there. (I cannot upgrade because the new version does not adequately support my bibliographic software).

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Nov 12, 2013 4:50 PM in response to sbilsbury

There are two versions of Garamond on OSX 10.9 Mavericks:

Garamond (Regular, Italic & Bold) NB there is no Bold Italic

Adobe Garamond Pro (Regular, Italic, Bold & Bold Italic)

There are four possibilities:

1. The original document was created in Word with a different version of Garamond

2. You have installed Word for Mac on your Mac and it has the same name but different kerning maps

3. You have used Garamond Bold Italic and this doesn't appear to exist in OSX (Change it and see)

4. You have another Garamond from somewhere (there are dozens of published versions) and it is clashing with the system version.

Open Font Book:

select whichever Garamonds you have > Menu > File > Validate Font/File

Peter

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Answer 7

Mar 17, 2014 9:54 AM in response to sbilsbury

Try disabling Garmond in Font Book, quitting and restarting Pages, etc. That seemed to do the trick for me (macbook air, 10.9.2).

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atobteam

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Nov 26, 2014 1:50 PM in response to sbilsbury

Like AllergyDoc, I found this on an old computer (spotlight searched "Garamond" and found it located in Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Fonts). Went to that folder, then dragged the Garamond file onto a thumb drive. Took the thumb drive to my new computer, opened FontBook, selected "Add fonts . . ." from the File menu, and navigated to my thumb drive (not under Desktop, but further down on the sidebar), and selected the Garamond file. It imported and is now in my list of fonts in Pages.

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vitessa

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Nov 27, 2014 4:22 AM in response to sbilsbury

Look for FontNuke and empty the font cache.

A lot of problem are caused by a font cache with damaged fonts

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