On Sep 15, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"Stephen" == Stephen Buonopane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
What do you mean by 'acquire'? Does the problem survive to a reboot, for example?
Stephen> In my case, things worked fine for a month and then the Stephen> problem appeared with no obvious reason. Rebooting did not Stephen> help.
No OS update?
No OS update. It was literally working one day and not the next. But maybe I should try OS 10.3.5. It says improved font management. Anyone have this problem on 10.3.5?
Stephen> There are other reports of OS X corrupted font caches and Stephen> there seems no reliable way to rebuild them, short of Stephen> reinstalling the system.
So it could be a OS X bug?
Perhaps. I never experienced any such problems in OS 10.2. And I think that Apple did make changes to the whole font system. For example there is now the FontBook app. I found some Apple FontTools on the ADC website, perhaps they will be of help. I know very little about this stuff. I am just grasping at straws.
Searching around for 'corrupted font cache' I found: http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fcache/fcache.html
I tried that already but it did not work.
I can offer one other piece of evidence....
after trying all sorts of things to get the math fonts to show up (see previous post of 14 Sept.) I ended up with plain letters (a,b,c etc) showing up as Courier font in the Math box, instead of Times. On a hunch, I used i-Installer to reconfigure my CM super fonts. This corrected the display of letters, but not symbols and greek letters. I would have thought that the CM super reconfig would have only affected the ps output and not the screen display? But it seems to have changed the screen font too.
