Blurred Text in Safari

Occasionally when reading a ducument in Safari, the text blurs and I have to reboot Safari. Anyone else have this problem?
Virg

Open System Preferences > General
Make sure: Use LCD font smothing when available is selected.
Having Zoom enabled in System Preferences > Universal Access - Seeing may cause some blurring.
Try a different monitor resolution. Open System Preferences > Displays
Could be duplicate or corrupted fonts.
Help here > Font problems and management in OS X | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews
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Blurred text in preview

Hi all,
I'm trying to revive a previous post. Essentially I'm having a problem with blurred text in preview, similar to this post from last year: https://discussions.apple.com/message/10895578 . Also, here's mine (https://discussions.apple.com/message/16092409), and I haven't received replies.. but what the previous discussion thread shows is exactly the same issue I'm having. Has anyone seen this blurred/smeared text in Preview/Quicklook before? and were you able to fix it?? It only happens with PDFs (and NOT present in Adobe Acrobat/Reader)..
It wouldn't be so annoying if it wasn't that Mail.app uses preview also and I often get work PDFs mailed to me.
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I'm having the same issue viewing PDF's....
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I've been trying to find a way to highlight/select different ranges of text in Safari without luck; I know that selecting consecutive text can be done by holding down "shift", but is there any way to do it with non-consecutive text? TextEdit is able to do this -- I can select a word in one paragraph, hold down the "command" key, and then separately highlight a word or sentence in another paragraph.

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I cannot find a way to select non-contiguous text in Safari.
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I am very surprised that I can't locate any information on this via google, yahoo, etc.
The only item I did find is something called "Safari Magic" but it looks pretty old and costs $19.
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I'm in Snow Leopard; Safari 5.1.5.
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mcbuffy
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This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, or by a peripheral device.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Boot in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
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Typing text freezes Safari

My husband and I each have our own user accounts on our MacBook and mine is working normally. His, however, in the last two days when he types any text in Safari on almost any web page it freezes Safari forcing him to force quit. It doesn't happen when logging into Yahoo email or library web sites, but seems to on any other field. He can also use the google search on the address bar. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Hi
Welcome to Apple Discussions
Problems with Safari specific to one user account narrows the possibilities of what is occurring.
Might be a Font issue at play. Download a copy of Font Finagler. This will allow you to clean the Font cache. Try Safari again. If this does not help, I'd look at specific Safari folders/files:
First via the Finder>Home>Library: move the com.apple.safari.plist file found via the Finder>User Library>Preferences folder to the desktop and restart Safari. If Safari is stable, you'll need to reset your custom preferences in Safari, as well as any special settings in the Edit (spelling) or View menu (custom icons, status bar, etc.) If no change, move the file back to its original location, replacing the newly created file.
If the above doesn't work, go to the User Library>Caches>Safari and move that file to the desktop. Same routine as the previous step (restart Safari, etc). If no go, move the folder back etc.
Next, move to the desktop the Safari folder (which holds bookmarks, history, etc), and restart Safari. This folder is found in the same User Library accessed for the preference file. Restart Safari. If no relief, move the folder back, replacing the newly created one. If it does work, then you'll need to move one file at a time back to its original location, restarting Safari each time to isolate the problem file. When Safari crashes, you found the culprit.
If the above doesn't work, go to the User Library>Caches>Safari and move that file to the desktop. Same routine as the previous step (restart Safari, etc). If no go, move the folder back etc.
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Superimposed Text in Safari

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Thank you for your response! I have been working on this with no success so far. I disabled all the widgets, but no change. I quit my only start up item, and no change. I quit all applications other than Mail and Safari, and still no change. I'm not sure what a plug-in is, so I don't know if I have anything like that.
Also, I dragged my few 3rd party applications out of the application folder onto the desktop, and still no change.
However, I do wonder if I do have some sort of a widget problem. My weather widget for Georgetown, Texas reset itself for Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica (Guyana). If I am at a Best Western, two of my weather widgets reset themselves to Cupertino. And the level widget has no bubble.
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Problems viewing text in Safari 2.0.4

I'm hoping someone can help me; when a user visits this website in Safari 2.0.4 on certain sub-category pages the text either runs off the page and under the graphics on the right handside or words get cut off in the middle and word wrapping does not work.
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Applescript Help: Search for text in Safari DOM tree

Im trying to make a script really similar what was asked here: Re: Find text in webpage and email notification applescript/automator Except instead of searching the "source code" of the page, I want the script to search the "DOM tree" for the page.
To summarize, I am trying to make a script that loads a safari page, searches for a particular text in the DOM Tree, and if found will send me an email.
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