[X4U] Re: Apple mail problems

[PoolMouse]

Stroller <macmonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:

>On 25 Feb 2006, at 12:32, CYNTHIA MOORE wrote:
>>  ..
>  > When I installed Fusion, I was given an option to
>>  import fonts from Suitcase XI. I did not allow Fusion
>>  to do this.
>>  As for the system fonts, I don't remember bringing up
>>  that dialogue box. Right now I have closed every font
>>  except system fonts, arial, helvetica and times.
>
>What is surely happening is that Mail.app is missing an essential font.
>
>Possibly Mail.app under 10.4 depends on one more fonts that it didn't 
>need in 10.3, for which your font software may have been developed.
>
>In any case the solution is surely to uninstall all font management
>programs & restore your fonts to the default for the system (failing 
>to import from Suitcase may be the root of the problem, but too late 
>now). Once you have reached this situation Mail.app will surely 
>display correctly and you can reinstall the Font Management 
>utilities; if the problem returns then you can disable all fonts on 
>your system and add them back one at a time to find out which is 
>causing the problem. However your first action should be to remove 
>all your font management software in order to establish that the 
>issue can be resolved with that.
>
>Stroller.

this is what bugs me....all the font dependancies. we've yelled at 
omnigroup (dependancies on courier - fixed in ogp 4.1.1), poweron 
(dependancies on trebucet - spelling?), etc.

apple promised months before tiger release that dependancies for 
apple apps would be lifted (including the p.i.t.a. helvetica and 
helveticaneue requirement for ichat, etc.,...but if the above is 
true, apple dropped the ball.

ironic considering apple finally released a white paper (along with 
suitcase's white paper) showing us how to flush the 
/System/Library/Fonts, /Library/Fonts and /Library/Application\ 
Support/Fonts folders of all but the 5 required to boot.

bummer...

don
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don montalvo, nyc
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