Widgets Faded?

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Widgets Faded?

Hi people

That is my first post in this forum. It looks very good so far with much information and activity. Here is the question:

I did notice that just recently my widget looks faded. If you see the Calendar and the Weather Widgets the fonts that used to be bold and well contrasted now are now outline types with poor definition. I don´t know what happens. Maybe is something very easy to solve. I send you a link with the image and how they look now.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1f9kRGFPBNIiMzPFzoKovZhconbZX0

Anybody knows how to solve that?

Thanks for any info and best,
Sebastiao

Imac Intel Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2 Gb RAM, 250 Gb Hard Drive

Posted on May 10, 2007 3:58 PM

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Henry G4

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May 10, 2007 6:33 PM in response to uzapuca

Hi.

Very interesting, indeed. Those two widgets use the HelveticaNeue font, which could be responsible for this foul play.

Have you tried clicking on the widget and then pressing Command-R?
If that doesn't work, try starting in Safe Mode (hold Shift right after the chime), so it will clear the system font cache. If the problem persists, clear the Dashboard cache: you can use MainMenu, it's under "Other Tasks", or do it manually:
Open Terminal and type Killall Dock, or quit the Dock from Activity Monitor, or Log out and back in (these procedures quit Dashboard), then, go to ~/Library/Caches/DashboardClient, and move to the Trash the numbered sub-folders.

If none of the above works, then run Font Book and validate your System Fonts, HelveticaNeue could be damaged.

Good Luck.

MacMini G4 1.25GHz 1GB Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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uzapuca Author

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May 11, 2007 3:14 AM in response to Henry G4

Hi Henry G4,

Great info and a lot of options to do. I will try them now and see if I can solve it.

By the way, do you know if I can download the original Apple Widgets again from some place? Maybe the widget is damaged.

Thanks and best,
Sebastiao

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uzapuca Author

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May 11, 2007 3:57 AM in response to Henry G4

Hi man,

Me again...

It was the start in Safe mode option which solved the problem. I believe as you said earlier that the error could be because of a font conflict. I do have a Helvetica Neue (Open Type and another True Type version) maybe there is some problem having both activated. I use FontExplorer freeware from Linotype which usually works well, but having many fonts sometimes can be confussing.

Even if it worked fine, should I clean the cache frecuently with MainMenu or that was automatically done when I started in Safe Mode?

Thanks again for a very complete answer.

Best,
Sebastiao

Imac Intel Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2 Gb RAM, 250 Gb Hard Drive

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Henry G4

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May 11, 2007 7:05 AM in response to uzapuca

Good to hear it's working fine again.
MainMenu can clean the font cache (I think you need to restart after running that option). Safe Mode cleans the font cache automatically.

Your widgets were not damaged, but if you ever need to reinstall one of the original apple widgets, they are in the Tiger Install Disc, and you can extract them using Pacifist

Have a nice day, and thanks for the points!

MacMini G4 1.25GHz 1GB Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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uzapuca Author

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May 11, 2007 8:32 AM in response to Henry G4

Hi Henry G4,

You do deserves the points for the very good and complete info. Great about Pacifist, I did not know that.

Have a nice day you too and best,
Sebastiao

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