[X4U] Missing font in Safari
Jan Melichar
janmel at mac.com
Tue Dec 19 00:04:47 PST 2006
On 18 Dec 2006, at 13:33, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
> After last weeks thread about font management I decided to do a
> little house cleaning. I upgraded to Suitcase Fusion, emptied my
> User and Library Fonts folders and removed everything from my
> System Fonts folder except for; Geneva, Kayboard, LastResort,
> LucidaGrande and Monaco. I've used Suitcase to permanently
> activate; Courier, Helvetica, Symbol, Times and ZapfDingbats. I had
> a bit of problems with Mail defaulting to Helvetica Fractions so I
> deleted that font and all is now well in Mail. However, Safari
> still has some strange font problems. My home page is "http://
> www.apple.com/startpage/" The header and both sides of the window
> look fine, but the centre "Top Stories" section displays weird. The
> dates and titles are fine but the descriptions look like they're
> written in some foreign language. Does anyone know what font I need
> installed for that section to display correctly. BTW, the problem
> isn't just on Apples site it's just the easiest site to point you to.
>
> Mark Des Cotes
I had the same problem after updating from Suitcase to Fusion but why
Safari displayed symbols on some web pages Firefox did not which seem
more that a matter of unavailable fonts.
Jan
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