Comments on: Duplicate fonts problem in MacOSX

By: guioconnor

guioconnor — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:09:45 +0000

@Frymaster Speck - Have you tried to see if this problem occurs when you are logged as a different user.

When I first have this problem I was installing fonts in user space and then when I switched users I found everything was fine. This is how I figured out what was happening.

By: guioconnor

guioconnor — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:27:05 +0000

@Frymaster Speck - removing duplicate fonts has worked for me, so I haven’t tried the font converted. AFAIK, MacOS seems to handle True Type fonts correctly, so i didn’t bother to convert them.

What brings a lot of trouble is to install two versions of the same font, being them True Type or not and sometimes, even when you solve duplicates you may end up with a bold of a version and the regular version of another, this still breaks everything anyway.

After I found out what had happened, I actually had to go font by font, among the duplicates, and make consistent changes so no two versions were mixed.

That was very, very annoying, but on the end, it payed off because everything went normal again :-)

Just another thing, depending on how your user installs fonts, it may happen that default fonts are installed as System fonts and the duplicates as user fonts, so you may still have mixed fonts that are not in the same user level.

By: Frymaster Speck

Frymaster Speck — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:11:49 +0000

I continue to have problems and have eliminated all duplicates. This really sucks because part of my job is demonstrating and training on wikis, and my problem is worst in dialog boxes.

Also, have you tried Luis’s suggestion, TTConverter? Review?

By: Luis Eduardo

Luis Eduardo — Mon, 28 May 2007 16:33:47 +0000

Debes conseguir (tucows.com9
el programa TTConverter, que pasa las fuentes TT de una plataforma a la otra. (Si son Mac a PC y viceversa).