Greville

Q: Problem with some symbol fonts after Sierra install

Hello,

 

I recently upgraded the OS on my Late 2012 iMac to Sierra, since doing so I've noticed a problem with several fonts.

 

All of the symbolic fonts from Apple Symbols to Wingdings do not display correctly in Font Book; Apple Symbols looks like a standard san serif font, and the other symbolic fonts just show as question marks '?' where the images should be.

 

In Text Edit I can't even see the symbolic fonts like Wingdings and Zapf Dingbats in the picker. However they all work fine in Adobe Illustrator (CS5) and Microsoft Word 2011. Apple Symbols still looks like a standard font.

 

I've already tried the following:

1.     Verifying fonts in Font Book

2.     Resolving duplicates in Font Book

3.     Using the 'Restore Standard Fonts' option in Font Book

4.     Deleting the Fonts plist file in the preferences folder

5.     Removed the font cache and database

 

I'm out of ideas. Has anyone else had the same problem found a fix?

 

Regards,

Greville

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 27, 2016 11:35 PM

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  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Oct 2, 2016 5:15 PM in response to joelfrommilpitas
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    Oct 2, 2016 5:15 PM in response to joelfrommilpitas

    GO to applications/font book and do File > restore standard fonts and restart

  • by Greville,

    Greville Greville Oct 2, 2016 6:21 PM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Oct 2, 2016 6:21 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

    Hi Tom,

    That was one of the first things I have tried. It made no difference.

     

    In regards to using the character picker, this doesn't match my previous experiences for using the symbols in Wingdings etc. I would pick the font and press the corresponding key to see the symbol. This has been fairly consistent for me from back in the pre-OSX days through to Sierra.

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Oct 2, 2016 7:06 PM in response to Greville
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    Oct 2, 2016 7:06 PM in response to Greville

    IT has sometimes been possible to use the keyboard for wingdings etc., but in fully Unicode compliant systems it should not work that way, either a character viewer or a separate keyboard layout should be required.  It looks like Apple has taken a further step in that direction.

     

    the fontbook advice was for a different situation.

  • by AcostaDesignLab,

    AcostaDesignLab AcostaDesignLab Oct 3, 2016 8:11 AM in response to Greville
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    Oct 3, 2016 8:11 AM in response to Greville

    I fixed this problem using a third part application "Activate WhatFont" for recognize the trouble font. Than the problem was that the font Arial was missed, and I reinstall the  Arial font with  FontExplorer.

     

    Now all works well!

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