On reopening my Keynote 5.3 file all the text has turned to severely minus-tracked jibberish. So severely minus-tracked that all the letters are overlapping. I'm using a non-system font and when I change it to Arial the problem goes away. I'd rather use the font I've chosen though of course. Anyone seen this before? See screenshot attached. I'm on OSX 10.8.5
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Use Font Book in Applications to repair this font
click on the fonts causing problems then File > Validate Font
If this does not cure the issue you will need to use an alternate font
Thanks Gary for the tip. I've done Validate Font in Font Book and the problem still exists. Now, why would certain non-system fonts suddenly be a problem in Keynote? I've changed fonts from New Rail Alphabet to Helvetica Neue – Helvetica Neue now works but I have no idea why. Anyone else who can contribute to this mystery?
If I was paranoid I would be thinking this is Apple's way of getting me to upgrade to Yosemite when it knows hundreds of thousands of designers out here are resisting this because they want to continue using Keynote 5.3 instead of the infantile new version that has travelled backwards just for the sake of making the experience of desktop and ios the same. Yet another example of the folly of branding – this time applied to interface design.
Fonts are one of the first things to check when having issues with applications that use text; iMovie, Final Cut, Photoshop and Keynote can be stopped in their track with a "bad" font. I'v lost count with the number of times I'v used a different font which has sorted out issues.
Text has turned to minus-tracked jibberish
