Cannot read threads on discussion or elsewhere on the internet with Lion
Text in sites, and on these forums is all 'A''s in little squares. Nothing can be read. Lion is taking over and I don't know how to fix it.
Sometimes, like posting this, I can read my own post, but in other apps also, like InDesign, the lettering is all A's inside of little squares.
CBorah wrote:
Same thing happened to me. I used Time Machine to restore my system fonts to just before everything went bad. Then I went through FontAgent Pro and removed any fonts that were duplicates of system fonts. Seemed to solve the problem.
New problem though is that the fonts I do have activated in FontAgent Pro are not showing up in any application font menus, so I can't get any work done. It's been 3 days of working with their tech support and no sollution yet. I'm going to miss deadlines. Not cool. I should have waited on the Lion upgrade.
Fortunately for me, I have no projects that require use of the Mac right now, awaiting client approvals. This gives me time to anticipate how I'm going to react to complete jobs, printer drivers do not work with Adobe CS programs, but do with with Acrobat, so I can convert some to PDF for printing while I wait to get issue resolved with printing.
This will all take time as each issue has to be worked out with each vendor, not an easy prospect as some vendors are non-existent in the customer service department. Lion is basically causing me to re-build my Mac. I like the speed and 'heft' of Lion, so I'm going to brave it through. I only hope I do not have to buy a second mac just to run Snow Leopard, which was the version that ran most everything just fine. I will not install separate OS's on my main Mac as I do not want to do that, I would rather just buy another new machine and keep it on the side to run old apps that are not available any longer, like OmniPage - the optical character reader program that really works, but not on Lion.
Best Wishes You Brave Souls,
Ken
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Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2002:5c62:2a41:c:a408:59a3:918e:f0ab
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Gerard.
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Go to Solution.brownwolf66 wrote:
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[[Image:FirefoxSafeMode|width=520]]
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[[Image:Safe Mode Fx 15 - Win]]
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