Coping with system font change

Anyone know if theres any way to detect when the system font settings are changed?

Are you trying to dynamically cope, i.e. while your application is running, with system font changes? Or are you dealing with changes between instantiations?
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Unicode display with system fonts?? (special characters)

Hi All. We're working on site that supports a couple
different languages: English, Japanese, and now German. We're using
dynamic text boxes and Remoting to display internationalized text
where necessary. Remoting makes a call to the backend, which
returns a text blurb depending on the country ID that's in use and
then the result is tossed up into the dynamic text box on screen.
Simple as pie. Works great for English, and great for Japanese. But
now we've added German, which I thought would be painless as it's
another western language.
Apparently, Flash is having problems displaying special
characters like the umlaut. In place of the special character, we
see a black diamond with a question mark. Now normally I'd think
that the font we're using doesn't have the embedded symbol for the
umlaut character but the thing is, we're not using embedded fonts
-- we're using system fonts (verdana) and everything works perfect
for the Japanese version. What in the world is going on?
If I dump the results of the remoting call to an html page,
everything displays as it should so I know the data in the database
isn't improperly encoded or anything. And Japanese works! WTF? Any
ideas PLEASE let me know, been banging my head against this for
waaay too long now...
Danke
.

Alright so if I change the data directly, and make the
a-umlaut into Ġ everything renders in Flash perfectly.
Rockin. So I patch my input cms code to run htmlentities() on the
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WHY!?!?! Why do I have to make a CSS RULE with every Font Change

I am no major developer, but I have been using dreamweaver to build basic HTML sites for years. Just downloaded CS5 and I am ready to put my fist through the screen.
I am creating a NEW HTML document. I dont know much about CSS so I am avoiding it.
So I create a few tables, put text in the table, and go to change the attibutes like size, color, etc. Now I need to define it by making a CSS rule. Ok, perhaps I am a bit behind, but I selected a new HTML document, NOT CSS. Why do I have to define anything with CSS?
Yes, this is a basic basic thing I am trying to do. For years if I wanted to change the color, size, position, etc of some simply text in DW, it would just do it. I would never be asked to make a rule.
What is frusterating me is that I am making a rule, adjusting text, I can partially live with that. But now it is changing the attributes of text on the other wide of the page in a different table because it had similar attributes.
How do I go back to old school html, stright forward, no CSS.
thanks!
Jason

KeyWestInc wrote:
I am no major developer, but I have been using dreamweaver to build basic HTML sites for years. Just downloaded CS5 and I am ready to put my fist through the screen.
I am creating a NEW HTML document. I dont know much about CSS so I am avoiding it.
So I create a few tables, put text in the table, and go to change the attibutes like size, color, etc. Now I need to define it by making a CSS rule. Ok, perhaps I am a bit behind, but I selected a new HTML document, NOT CSS. Why do I have to define anything with CSS?
Yes, this is a basic basic thing I am trying to do. For years if I wanted to change the color, size, position, etc of some simply text in DW, it would just do it. I would never be asked to make a rule.
What is frusterating me is that I am making a rule, adjusting text, I can partially live with that. But now it is changing the attributes of text on the other wide of the page in a different table because it had similar attributes.
How do I go back to old school html, stright forward, no CSS.
thanks!
Jason
This question comes up a lot and it always interests me. If you choose a profession, why would you choose something you don't want to continue learning about? Would you be mad if your mechanic wouldn't repair your hybrid car engines because they only want to work on engines from the muscle cars of the 60s and 70s? Or would you prefer a doctor only give you penicillin for everything because they don't want to learn about the modern advances in medicine? It just doesn't make sense.
Best advise I can give you is that CSS is the way all web browsers and email clients are going whether through the use of attached style sheets with defined styles, or with inline styles for email security reasons. CSS is the styling for anything web based. Even if you are not in a CSS document, HTML pages use CSS to render styles from colors and margins to borders and backgrounds. Then if you use a rule over and over you don't have to click through this color and that size and that underline with this font. You just select a style where you want it and keep going. The learning is worth the time invested.
http://w3schools.com/css/default.asp

Problem with system font

Suddenly my InDesign "Control" menu is not showing the "degrees" sign (°) any more, but is showing the micron (µ) symbol instead. I wonder what I have done to make this happen? I have tried clearing the font cache, restarting, etc but it does not help. I'm wondering if I inadvertently removed a system font, but can't figure out which one it might be. Can anyone help?

Back up all data before proceeding.
Launch the Font Book application and validate all fonts. You must select the fonts in order to validate them. See the built-in help and this support article for instructions. If Font Book finds any issues, resolve them.
Start up in safe mode to rebuild the font caches. Restart as usual and test.
Note: If FileVault is enabled in OS X 10.9 or earlier, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a software RAID, you can’t start in safe mode. In that case, ask for instructions.
If you still have problems, then from the Font Book menu bar, select
File ▹ Restore Standard Fonts...
You'll be prompted to confirm, and then to enter your administrator login password.
Also note that if you deactivate or remove any built-in fonts, for instance by using a third-party font manager, the system may become unstable.

Blank Slideshow captions disappear with system font

Anyone know if this has been fixed? Still not working for me in beta 7. Only one of the captions appears when I apply a system font—the rest in the code are set to a width and height of 1 px.

This is a known bug, but we don't have an ETA for a fix at this point. The workaround is to use web safe fonts for now.

DW CS4 "System" Fonts

My wife's been using CS4 on a 19" CRT at 1024x768 resolution for quite a while. When her monitor went out this weekend, I managed to chase down a 19" LCD monitor, but this really has to be run at its native resolution of 1280x1024.
Well, she really didn't like everything getting smaller on the screen, so she started playing around with various Windows settings having to do with system fonts and font sizes. Her desktop and some apps now look like she wants, but DW is a mess! The fonts in the menus are large and very poorly rendered, but even worse, the fonts in the various panels now don't seem to fit correctly, appearing cut off or overlapping in some cases.
Is there any solution or workaround for this?
It does bring out one problem of LCD vs. CRT monitors: CRTs would look just about as good at any one of several resolutions, but LCDs only look sharp at their native resolution, and the trend is to keep packing in more pixels.

In my experience, unfortunately, the solution is to set the LCD monitor at it's native resolution as Dreamweaver doesn't handle the system fonts being resized. Also, when you run LCDs a smaller resolution then their native resolution, I've found that they make everything fuzzy, and you really don't want that when you're working on a design, much less when you're trying to read text.

Dante font used in manuscript - when I try to save as a pdf document in Microsoft Word whole pages change their look, with wide gaps forming between certain paragraphs or sections. This does not happen with other fonts.

Dante font used in manuscript … when I try to save as a pdf document in Microsoft Word whole pages change their look, with wide gaps forming between certain paragraphs or sections. This does not happen with other fonts.

OK, we've got it!
What is happening is that when you use Microsoft's save as PDF in Word, the font isn't embedded even though the font is tagged to allow embedding. Furthermore, Microsoft doesn't properly put the font name into the PDF file such that Acrobat or Reader can readily find the font installed on your system such that the text can be properly displayed and/or printed. Acrobat and Reader attempt to display and/or print the text using a “substitution font” and of course, as they say, YMMV (“your mileage may vary”)!
I personally submitted the report of this problem (both the embedding and the font name problem) to Microsoft. They acknowledge the bug, tried a fix and provided me a build with it, but it wasn't right. Maybe they will ultimately fix it, maybe they won't. We don't know yet. We do know that if it is fixed, it will be fixed only for Office 2013 (problem occurs with all Office applications since they use the same PDF generation code) and thus such a fix won't help you.
Adobe Acrobat Standard and Acrobat Pro both provide an Adobe PDFMaker plug-in to Office applications (including full support for Office 2010) that adds an Acrobat Toolbar as well as a Save as Adobe PDF menu item. The resultant PDF file fully supports embedding of OpenType CFF, TrueType, and Type 1 fonts and in many other ways produces much superior PDF with a full range of PDF generation options not available with the Microsoft PDF. (Note that beginning with Office 2013, Microsoft does not support Type 1 fonts in Office documents at all, even for existing documents!) The Acrobat Office functions are widely used and respected in the end user community and whatever “issues” there are (all software has “issues” of some type - it is a matter of how many and how severe), you should be in much better shape for PDF production that with what you currently are using.
Good luck and let us know if this resolves your problems. (Note that you can download and install a free fully-functional 30 trial of Acrobat Pro to assure that it meets your needs! You can then buy a license and activate what you already have installed.)
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InDesign CS6 - fonts problems (Document fonts fight with system installed fonts, "font incomplete")

hello
First, Indesign function to automatically open fonts from "Document fonts" folder is fantastic, quasy font manager. BUT, fonts is available ONLY for THAT indesign document, no other application can use it, even from CS6 suite. This is probably the most stupid decision about how this function must work. IDEALLY, fonts will be available for ALL application inside CS package until indd doc is closed. If I need some font for editing links in photoshop, illustrator I need to install them. This workflow have wrong concept.
We now have problem, sorry Indesign have problem. Example, I need type1 font mt-symbol for mathtype AND for Indesign. This font is installed in c:\windows\fonts folder. Everything work fine. When I make package from Indesign and reopen indesign indd document inside package, Indesign report that mt-symbol IS INCOMPLETE. WHY, BECAUSE CONCURENT FONTS from both C:\windows\fonts folder AND FROM "Document fonts" folder. If I rename "Document fonts" folder, Indesign open font only from system and everything work properly.
THIS IS BIG PROBLEM, fonts circles around workflow/folders and always will be duplicates in "document fonts" and system\fonts folder because different application need same fonts.
Any solution?

Another problem with the Document Fonts folder that we just noticed: in CS5, you could place Windows Type 1 fonts (.pfm and .pfb) into the Document Fonts folder on a Mac and InDesign would activate them.
This no longer works in CS6. (Bug report filed.)
Huge bummer, as this was a great timesaver and workaround in a high-production prepress environment when working with old Windows files. Hopefully this was not an intentional change and will be restored in a later bugfix release, or at worst in CS7.

How to replace system fonts with type 1 version

Can system font Helvetica be replaced with the PostScript Type 1 (Older) Version?
Can a system font be deleted?
System: iMac 2012, OS X 10.8.2, Output Device: PostScript Level 1 Imagesetter
We are trying to pring Helvetica to a PostScript Level 1 device
and do not want to convert system font to outlines in Illustrator in order to print
to our output device as we would loose all editing capabilities.
Our device will not accept TrueType or OpenType fonts only Type 1 fonts.
Please explain if possible

Same problem! The only solution I found is to prepare a textbox in a new file with all the font you need. Copy and past in the file you need to change font. Go to type/risolve missing font. Will open the same window in the pic you pasted. Then you find the font in the dropdown menu. I have to change all the Helvetica family ...it's a long go. If some one could save me. Hope to be usefull to your problem.

What is the problem with fonts changing to myriad pro? Is this problem ever going to be resolved? Its driving me mad!

What is the problem with fonts changing to myriad pro? Is this problem ever going to be resolved? Its driving me mad!

Browser Dog, Amy,
The default font remains Myriad Pro until you change it, either in the RGB/CMYK Startup files or in the preferences, options depending on versions.
Concerning missing font names, I believe this may solve it:
Open System Preferences and go to Accessibility. Next, select Display from the source list along the left, then check the box labelled Reduce transparency.
It was first presented in this post #15 by TheUlser:

Changing system font colors?

Hi community,
I have been always a lover of dark backgrounds with light color fonts because it's much better for reading, at least for me.
1) Is there any way to change the way the system fonts color is displayed? I could change the background color using the options of the finder to a background gray color of 333333, but cannot change the font color to something around white, in order to get a better contrast between background and text.
2) It's possible to do the same in text editors?
Thanks in advance,
Mart

Hi,
Happens in the finder that the fonts are black, and I would like to change the font color from black (default) to white. If you take a look to the new Snow Leopard, you will notice that some texts are white over a dark gray background. That's aesthetically super cool, and much better for reading. Here is an snapshot of this thing: http://www.zone-numerique.com/uploads/News/090216/capturesnow_leopard_dock450.jpg You can see how good is the contrast with white over dark gray. I would love to have the whole OS set this way, instead white & light gray (default).
Thanks,
Mart

I don't understand how to use the System Font Panel with iMovie.

I need an explanation of how the System Font Panel works. I guess there's a way to get some of those fonts to the iMovie Font Panel, but I can't see how.
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I have had good success with the System Font Panel. Now all of a sudden, I only get part of it. Any suggestions on how to restore the entire panel? There are no change size options in the corners like in some dialog boxes. I was going to paste what I have here, but for some reason, paste is not available.

Problems with installing system fonts on the PC version of Muse?

I have created a site in Muse and everything is fine when the file is opened on my mac where it was created.
My customer has brought a muse subscription as they wanted to maintain it in house, but they are on a PC. Muse was purchased and installed on the PC ok.
I have now given them the Muse file and it opens up ok in the PC Muse version apart from copy in Myriad Pro Bold (I assume as it's not a standard system font, it uses a substitute). The body copy displays ok as it's just Myriad Pro and that seems to be installed as system font already.
The customer purchased Myriad Pro Bold font and installed the font to their fonts library on the PC (WINDOWS 7), but Muse will still not recognise it when the Muse file opens and it also doesn't appear in the systems fonts list in Muse?
It appears in Word, which is why we couldn't figure out why it wouldn't at least appear in the system fonts section in Muse?

With the current release of Muse fonts are listed differently on Mac and Windows (due to the fact the underlying operating systems enumerate fonts differently).
On the Mac Myriad Pro Bold is listed as such in the font menu. On Windows Myriad Pro Bold is accessed by selecting "Myriad Pro" from the menu then using the "Bold" icon button in the Control panel or Text panel to apply bold. This is something we're actively working on changing, but for now it means a Muse site file that's taken from Mac to Windows (or vice versa) is likely to need to have the bold and italic versions of the fonts re-applied. The easiest way to do this is to use Paragraph styles and or Character styles to format the text in your site, then redefine the individual styles to accomplish the font change.
A major inconvenience in a cross platform workflow and not the way it should work, I agree. We're actively working on it.

Need to change my system font

My system font is getting some unwanted font, so i need to change my system font, i dont know how to change, please help me to change my system font

You can change various fonts with Tinkertool (fonts tool).
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Change "rely on system fonts only" via Group Policy

Hello,
This may take a bit to explain my problem, sorry in advance. I have a mixed network environment of Windows 7 Professional (x64) and Windows XP Pro SP3 (x32), and all of them have Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard, with the Adobe PDF Printer.
My problem is that ALL of these systems have a serious, game-killing problem with the Adobe PDF printer setting, "Rely on system fonts only; do not use document fonts". If that option is enabled (or if the option with the same name under Printer Defaults is enabled), then printing in our ERP software dies. (We use Microsoft Dynamics GP). Users get an error "Unable to stop printing", and believe me it took a WHILE before I figured out that the Adobe PDF setting was to blame! This happens even if my users are printing to physical paper, and not touching the PDF printer at all. In other software we sometimes get the annoying popup message from Adobe PDF saying that we need to uncheck the "Rely on system fonts..." setting as well. In short, I HAVE to keep that option turned off for all of my users.
Unfortunately, every time there's a major Adobe update the option returns (GRRRR!), in both the Printer Preferences menu and the Printer Defaults menu. I'm trying to change the option via a group policy administrative template, but I don't know which registry settings to modify - it seems like this option exists in SEVERAL places, here are the ones I've found so far:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\Adobe PDF\PrinterDriverData\DistillerHostFontHasMostFonts
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\Adobe PDF\PrinterDriverData\DistillerHostFontHasMostFonts
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Print\Printers\Adobe PDF\PrinterDriverData\DistillerHostFontHasMostFonts
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\Adobe PDF\PrinterDriverData\DistillerHostFontHasMostFonts
I've also found references in this forum that tell me to also change a long binary string in:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\DevModePerUser\Adobe PDF\Adobe PDF (And this one I honestly have no idea how to edit a huge string like that.)
For the first four registry values, when I change DistillerHostFontHasMostFonts to 0 via a template... the checkbox isn't visually cleared in the GUI. *face palm* I'm a bit desperate - how is an admin supposed to change this option across a company network besides manually?

And, as a demonstration that this is a REAL and DOCUMENTED Microsoft bug, here's the text of the Dynamics GP KB article:
It would be nice if somebody from Adobe had an answer other than "yeah you shouldn't disable that feature, for vague reasons of our own that we won't tell you." Microsoft clearly believes it MUST be disabled! I don't have an option there, or my company's ERP software doesn't work.
SYMPTOMS
When you try to send a report as a .pdf file to an e-mail recipient from Microsoft Dynamics GP and from Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains, you receive the following error message:When you create a PostScript file you have to send the host fonts. Please go to the printer properties, "Adobe PDF Settings" page and turn OFF the option "Do not send fonts to Distiller" appears.You continue to receive this error message after you follow these steps to turn off the Do not send fonts to Distiller option:
1.
Click Start, and then click Printers and Faxes.
2.
Right-click Adobe PDF, and then click Properties.
3.
On the General tab, click Printing Preferences.
4.
Click to select the Do not send fonts to "Adobe PDF" check box, and then click OK.
5.
On the Advanced tab, click Printing Defaults.
6.
Click to select the Do not send fonts to "Adobe PDF" check box.
7.
Start Microsoft Great Plains.
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RESOLUTION
Microsoft Dynamics GPTo resolve this problem, complete steps 1-6 in the "Workaround" section.
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Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains 8.0To resolve this problem, complete steps 1-6 of the "Workaround" section, and then obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains 8.0. For more information, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites, depending on whether you are a partner or a customer. Partners https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/products/GreatPlains/downloads/servicepackCustomershttps://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/support/downloads/servicepacks
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WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, follow these steps.Adobe 6.0 and Adobe 7.0
1.
Click Start, and then click Printers and Faxes.
2.
Right-click Adobe PDF, and then click Properties.
3.
On the General tab, click Printing Preferences.
4.
Click to clear the Do not send fonts to "Adobe PDF" check box.
5.
On the Advanced tab, click Printing Defaults.
6.
Click to clear the Do not send fonts to "Adobe PDF" check box.
7.
Start Microsoft Great Plains.
8.
In Microsoft Great Plains, click Print Setup on the File menu.
9.
In the Name list, click Adobe PDF, and then click Properties.
10.
On the Adobe Default Settings tab, click to select the Do not send fonts to "Adobe PDF" check box. Then, click to clear the Do not send fonts to "Adobe PDF" check box.
11.
Click OK two times.
Adobe 8.0
1.
Click Start, and then click Printers and Faxes.
2.
Right-click Adobe PDF, and then click Properties.
3.
On the General tab, click Printing Preferences.
4.
Click to clear the Rely on System fonts only; do not use document fonts check box.
5.
On the Advanced tab, click Printing Defaults.
6.
Click to clear the Rely on System fonts only; do not use document fonts check box.
7.
Click OK two times.
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STATUS
Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
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Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
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Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains 8.0Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Business Solution - Great Plains 8.0 Service Pack 4a.
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MORE INFORMATION
The third-party products that this article discusses are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, about the performance or reliability of these products.
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APPLIES TO
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010
System Manager, when used with:
Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0
Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0
Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains 8.0

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