Safari text overlapping problem

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Safari text overlapping problem

I have an issue, rather than a real problem, with text on some web pages being overlapped with or by other text. In some cases the text appears to have, for example, the lower half of each character missing. It is irritating and makes the text almost illegible in some cases. I have searched on this forum but only found an unresolved thread from 2008. I am hoping someone can help.

I have a 2014 Mac Air running Mavericks.

MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Jan 12, 2015 6:55 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 23, 2015 9:33 AM in response to Herr Friar

Try opening preferences in Safari menu, go to the advanced tab, then uncheck 'never use font sizes smaller than __'....or just lower the value.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 12, 2015 10:26 AM in response to Herr Friar

Herr Friar wrote:

text on some web pages being overlapped with or by other text.

It sounds like a bad font or font cache. Open the FontBook app and check for duplicates.

Could you use the camera icon to post a screenshot here of what you are seeing?

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Herr Friar Author

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Jan 24, 2015 12:47 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Hi Tom - many thanks for your reply. My apologies for not getting back sooner. The problem still exists. I checked FontBook as you suggested but the only duplicates that I could see were actually variations, such as showing a font italicised. Can you please tell me how to use the camera icon to post a screenshot as I do not know how to do that.

Many thanks, Nick.

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