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- kelpie0
its probably some shitey mac setting glitch - I get my browser using bizarre non-standard font choices a lot and have to reboot and leave it sitting a while till its absolutely loaded everything it needs to into memory to fix it.
that's probably no help at all to you, sorry mate.
(ps. I don;t give a fuck if anyone on here thinks their mac is infallible and is irked that I would point out a glitch, worship elsewhere thanks)
- PSYKHO0
It's crap that FF on a Mac renders so poorly! On a PC it renders just fine. I never used Safari as it was just pants!
Again sorry I can't help you
- Dancer0
I have done a restart – no dice.
I first picked it up when I looked at Concrete's site.I recoded the whole page for him and it went normal when I put a new font-family into the CSS. Now I have come across this in Wiki I think it was my mac and not the code for the site.
Just wanted to know if anyone else ha a similar issue
- ian0
I haven't gotten it like that dancer, g5 FF3 running 10.4. I wonder do you have a corrupt font thats causing the weirdness? Are you using suitcase or Font Explorer?
- Dancer0
Font book – not my choice, I hasten to add
- ian0
Ahh, don't use it, but had trouble on other macs running it, weird conflicts and errors. Not sure if its that mind, but sounds like its a font issue, any weirdness in other programmes?
Try installing Font Explorer, and see if any of your fonts are corrupt, its a free installed and better than suitcase imo.
http://www.linotype.com/fontexpl…
- Dancer0
Can you pick up font conflicts with Linotype then?
- max_prophet0
I had that before, think it was down to a helvetica/helv neue clash but it was impossible to clean out, I ended up removing system fonts and getting into a proper nightmare - try turning off all Helvetica's except the system version, then get an app to clear your font and app cache's (like onyx, I think it's under the 'delete' tab) and then restart and hope.
- yeah, this kind of thing, is fairly easy to sort with font explorer.ian
- ian0
You can get it to clean up all your fonts, get rid of installed fonts that may be causing problems, clear out your font cache and manage your system fonts, and auto activate fonts that are needed for different apps and it will ask which versions you want activated if you have duplicates.
Its very, very handy. Installed it on my gfs laptop, she was using fontbook and manually installing fonts and she was having problems with fonts in different apps. Put it on and cleared out the system, took about 1 or 2 hours, but well worth it, sorted out all the problems she was having.
- check out the FAQ's on the site, explains about clearing font cache, which can clear up a fair few problems!ian
- Concrete0
Thanks again for your help, D.
You are a gentleman and a scallop.
- Raniator0
If you are using Fontbook change the prefs so that the default install location is 'user' not 'computer'.
That was you won't add anything to the system font folder. Because there are so many types of Helvetica and OS X uses helvetica as a system font you can really mess stuff up if you start adding and deleting fonts to the OS X system folder.