[X4U] Displaced Text in Safari

[Mark Des Cotes]

Dave,

I've had the same problem for years, going all the way back to my  
first instal of Jaguar. The problem only occurs if Safari launches  
before Suitcase is loaded. If I make sure that Suitcase is running  
first I don't have the problem. I was also seeing the "alien code" in  
Mail but only in the mail headers, the body and mailboxes appeared  
fine. If Suitcase wasn't running before I launched Mail I couldn't  
tell who a message was from. I set Suitcase up to launch  
automatically upon startup and the problem went away.

As a side note, I just tested it by quitting Suitcase, Safari and  
Mail and then opening Safari and Mail again without Suitcase running.  
So far I don't see the "alien code". Perhaps Apple fixed something or  
perhaps a font was re-installed when I upgraded to Tiger a couple of  
months ago.

Mark Des Cotes
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On 20-Jul-06, at 2:37 AM, midiboy at mac.com wrote:

>
> On Jul 20, 2006, at 1:18 AM, Linda wrote:
>
>> On 7/20/06 1:14 AM, midiboy at mac.com wrote:
>>
>>> Nevertheless, it has happened numerous times in the least few weeks.
>>>
>>> The search for meaning continues.....
>>
>> Even without knowing it, you may have multiple versions of  
>> Helvetica and/or
>> Helvetica Neue active at once. I replaced my .dfonts with Adobe  
>> Type 1
>> versions, and I get this problem on occasion, too. A reboot  
>> typically clears
>> whatever cache is confused, and business continues as usual.
>>
>> (I don't use Fusion, I still use FontReserve, and have this same  
>> occasional
>> phenomenon in OS X 10.3.X.)
>>
>> peace,
>> Linda
>
> Thanks! I think you nailed it. I don't have duplicate fonts, but I  
> *did* replace as many dfonts as possible with Postscript fonts,  
> because I use QuarkXpress for most text duties, and it likes  
> Postscript.  It's truly weird that the text appears wrong on the  
> screen, but copies and pastes normally......
>
> I'm not gonna obsess over this any more. I'll bet allowing Apple  
> apps to use their precious dfonts would solve the problem for  
> good.  It's good to be not alone.... :-)
>
> Dave
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