Corrupted Font Problem

Over the past week, people at my work have had problems with certain fonts becoming corrupted. For example, one user's Verdana font was corrupted in their User-Library folder. This can be fixed by deleting the corrupted font, but why are they getting corrupted? How can I prevent this?

I used a program called OnyX. It solved the problem.

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Corrupt font

I have a corrupt font problem!We have a PC running Windows XP SP3 I have previously installed a Labview program, built using labview 2009, and it has installed fine with no problems with the font.A colleague of mine has created an installer with Labview 2009 – SP1, installed it and the menu font became corrupt! He has installed it on other computers with no problem. I took Labview completely off the computer and re-installed the program build using Labview 2009 (without SP1) and the fonts are still corrupt. Can anyone explain what is going on and how to solve it?
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Hello TC_Magic,
As you pointed out yourself, this is a problem very specific with that particular PC. Nothing similar has been reported before, and since your appication deploys fine on other PCs, then we can only look more closely at settings on the computer where the issue appears.
Are there other languages installed on Windows? If you go to your Control Panel and navigate to your "Regional and Language Options", then you can select the "Languages" tab and click on the "Details" button. Can you see other languages installed there? This might be the root of this problem.
This, in combination with the language support you select in your Application properties in the Build Specifications of your LabVIEW project, will cause the menu of your executable to adopt to different languages. Go into your project, open your Build Specifications for your executable, then select the "Run-Time Languages" from the Category section, and then uncheck the "Support all languages" option. Then, uncheck all languages apart from English, and click on "Build". Redeploy your application and check if this fixed the problem.
Let us know how you get on.
Kind Regards,
Michael S.
Applications Engineer
NI UK & Ireland

Pages 08 fonts- problems with Arial, Times New Roman - how do I repair them?

Pages 08 fonts- problems with Arial, Times New Roman - how do I repair them?
Using 10.6.8 on MacBook Pro
Mikeaaa

I am running Snow Leopard. Transferring the same texts to TextEdit has no problems, so this is a Pages problem, I think. Corruption of Times New Roman and Arial fonts, I suspect, but where? and what do I do about it? I just need to be pointed to a source of advice, I think.
Thanks
Mikeaaa

Font problem

Hi,
i am using reports 6i on windows.
the generated pdf files have corrupted fonts so i have tried changing the font property in the report builder.
but whether i change the font to Times New roman, times new roman turkish or arial & save, the selected font is changed western when reopened.
i mean i select arial turkish , after reopen it has been arial western automatically. how to handle this?
thanks in advance.

If you are developing a report with oracle reports on a PC with for example Windows XP, the tool uses the fonts made available from Windows. After deploying your report to a UNIX server for real use, the report uses the fonts available from your UNIX machine. Even when UNIX has the same font and/or fontsize available, there is still a difference of some pixels! When the font is not on UNIX, UNIX try to use a similar font. This can give major problems with labels that are to small...etc. I've been told that Oracle 10G solves most of these problems by attaching the used font in the report.

Font problem in Safari

Some pages in Safari show up as gibberish. This started happening after I cleaned out my font library. I tried re-installing the system but I'm having the same problem. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.

I had loaded way too many fonts and it was slowing my apps so I decided to delete the ones I rarely use. I don't know if I deleted a system font or I just have corrupted fonts. I re-installed my OS hoping it would fix it but it hasn't. I also checked my other computer, which is working fine, and copied the fonts and added the missing ones to my problem computer. I also tried cleaning my font cache with Font Finagler. I'm still having issues. I can e-mail you a screenshot of a problem page if that would help.
Thanks.

Tab font problem (not a web-site problem)

In the main design page, all the tabs with text on
them (such as Common, Layout, Text, Tables, etc) are so small, they
are only represented by a few pixels. You literally cannot read
them at all. I am a true Noob with Dreamweaver, so I really need to
be able to read these tabs. Even the text at the bottom left
portion of the screen is too small (the workspace tabs and the
<xxxx> items)... I can't make them out at all.
Help please?
p.s. this is not about a web design... this is referring to
the actual program itself.

Is this a new install and it's been like that since starting?
Or an old
install and it used to be okay?
Are the main menus okay? Only the words in the Insert Bar are
off?
If you change to a different User on that machine, same
problem?
Uninstall and reinstall. May want to get and run the CS3 or
CS4 Cleaner app
from the adobe site to fully uninstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs3clean.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs4clean.html
[back up site definitions first]
And it wouldn't hurt to run through the steps in the technote
about corrupt
fonts.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

Corrupted fonts

After upgrading to Snow Leopard Mail was not displaying some fonts correctly. In particular, for me, courier was corrupted. I tracked down the problem to a corrupted font family. Using the font book I deleted the bad fonts and that seemed to resolve the issue.
You can do that by opening the fonts window and selecting "Manage fonts" from the little pull down menu at the bottom.

I'm having the same issue with cmd-b and cmd-i in Mail not working (though right-clicking and selecting bold or italics does work). I've tried everything. I can validate my fonts just fine. It says that 1, 476 passed, but there are 1, 409 minor problems found (all seem to be duplicates) and only 1 serious error.
All well and good, but when I select "Warning Or errors" from the drop-down menu in the Font Validation window as well as "Select all fonts" and then click the "Remove Checked" button, Font Book just freezes up. I would imagine it's because I have too many fonts, but are there ANY other options?
Thanks!

IMac very slow esp. in Photoshop, has corrupted fonts

Hi all,
I have an iMac that runs quite slowly after a few hours use, especially when using Photoshop and other Adobe software. What happens is, the processor gets completely swamped with "System" tasks (shown in Activity Monitor as red bars), the result being that "User" tasks are slow and the mouse jumps around the screen, rendering the computer almost useless. I've done a bunch of disk utilities including Leopard's onboard Disk Utility as well as OnyX, and although some errors were found, it was nothing serious. And after repairing, problems persisted.
Now, here's the thing. When I open Console, most of the errors are Adobe-related (mostly Photoshop and Dreamweaver). And I just ran a "Validate Fonts" check in Font Book, and found 15 fonts that have "serious errors, do not use".
So, I've often heard that Leopard, Adobe CS3, and corrupted fonts are a lethal combination. Not that I'm asking anyone to diagnose my problems from across the world, but does this sound like it could be the root of my problem? And if so, what's the proper process for removing the dangerous fonts so they can't ruin anything? Do I just delete them, or do corrupted fonts cause deeper problems which might necessitate reinstallation?
Thanks!

See Font Management in OS X and then these:
http://images.apple.com/pro/pdf/L311277AFontTTv4.pdf
http://www.creativetechs.com/tips/SVC-fonts/Fonts-2007-SVC.pdf
http://dl.extensis.com/downloads/SC/EN/P/FontsBest_Practices_inOSX.pdf
http://www.macworld.com/article/44942/2005/05/julyworkingmac.html
BTW, turn off the bad fonts with Font Book and see if the performance returns to normal.

Corrupted Font in Motion

Hi,
My copy of the font Gill Sans is becoming corrupted when I try to use it between Motion & Final Cut; I'm using one of the templates that require Gill Sans, and I have to stick with it because I'm sharing the FCP / Motion Project files with another editing house.
Any text that I enter in the Motion Template in FCP (and is written in Gill Sans) has a curious problem: the right hand vertical quarter of random letters disappears. I'm presuming that my copy of Gill Sans has become corrupted, causing this problem.
However I can't find a proper Mac copy of Gill Sans as a font to download & replace on my computer.
I've tried going back through my Mac Install discs, and I can't just re-load the Gill Sans font (or perhaps I'm missing the point where that's possible - I've been looking under custom installs).
I've posted a question about replacing this font in the Mac OSX 10.6 installation discussion area, but if anybody here could help me, it would be greatly appreciated.
thanks!
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hi,
someone posted about something very similar recently, but i can't find it. If I remember rightly it wasnt due to a corrupted font, but some funny business within motion. As far as i remember there was a pretty easy fix, but of course I cant remember what it was. Something like turning the drop shadow on and off again. In the meantime, do you have any filters applied to the font? You could try making sure that the Group the font is in has its resolution set to fixed.
hth
adam

Office:Mac and Corrupted Fonts

I have installed the office:mac 2004 version but when I try to open any of office applications while trying to optimize font menu performance, I get a message saying xyz font is corrupt and needs to be deleted. Seems like many fonts needs to be deleted.
So I called Microsoft help desk. She asked me to disable all fonts and restart my computer. After the restart now my office applications are working but my entire 235 fonts are disabled.
My computer is a G4 with 10.4.4 operating system. I also have system nine running.
Could anyone help me solve this issue?
Thank you in advance.

Yes, that is a puzzle. Perhaps your problem lies elsewhere. Try the following:
Boot from your Tiger DVD. After the installer loads select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your OS X volume from the list on the left, click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (3.0.3 for Tiger) and/or TechTool Pro (4.1.1 for Tiger) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
If that does not help, then you may have a corrupted font cache and/or preference files. The following may prove helpful:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607542&#607542.
You can also download one of the several utilities used to perform maintenance and use it to clear the font caches. I recommend Tinkertool System, but there are others from which to choose. You will find them all at www.versiontracker.com.

Font Book crashes when trying to remove corrupt fonts

I have recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and am having problems with my fonts.
After installing some of my previously used fonts, some of them didn't pass validation. I don't mind removing them - I barely use 1% of the fonts I have, but when I run Font Validation in Font Book and then select all the corrupt files and click "Remove" - Font Book just gets stuck.
Then I went by the list and removed MANUALLY all the invalid font files (the ones with the red cross sign).
Then only the minor warnings remained , but even when I try to remove them with Font Book - it still crashes.
It's ridiculous to remove them manually one by one, cause I have a huge collection of 1000s of fonts and there are more than 500 corrupt fonts there. I'm not using many fonts, but I want to keep my library up and working, so I want to get rid of everything that might cause problems...
Any help?

Hi Kurt
Sorry, was busy, didn't answer for some time. Thanks - it helped me to run Font Book again and install new fonts, but Font Book is still causing me a lot of trouble - never had so much in Leopard - I'm frustrated, maybe you can help on those:
After completely wiping clean all my fonts databases and folders etc. I've started loading back my Font libraries into Font Book. I don't copy fonts to any new folder, I just activate them from wherever they are without copying. First thing I noticed, is the amount of "corrupt" fonts has increased enormously - I have a couple of folders with alsmot all 400-500 fonts corrupt (yellow sign) with this error message: 'kern' table structure and contents. All of them with the same Error message.
The next thing that happened, is that at some point Font Book has just deleted my new font libraries again without any notice. Then I installed them back again. It deleted them again (I think after a restart).
Another bug is that Font Book always activates all the new fonts upon loading them, although I clearly runed off "Automatic fonts activation" in the Preferences. So every time I load a library I manually disable all of the fonts, and then enable only the ones I use.
BUT! What happens next, is completely outrageous - when I launched FB next time, all my new font libraries where activated again! jezus - I had to go and disable them all and again activate the ones I need. This repeated several times, until I decided to delete the fontbook.plist prefs file from Preferences. I think it helped for now, but I'm not sure yet - will wait and see.
Also there is a bug in FB, that when I install a new library, it always jumps my cursor into renaming the name of this library, and doesn't let me navigate the fonts with keyboard, unless I restart. This is an obvious bug.
And the last thing that happened is that I cannot type my Baltic languages fonts anymore - the input of the keyboard is completely wrong. Those are TrueType fonts, and most of them worked perfectly in Leopard with InDesign. Now when I type the baltic letters in InDesign I see squares. But when I open Glyphs - I see all those letters and need to put them in manually from Glyphs panel. This is totally frustrating and I cannot work. But I will make a separate post about this issue.
Thanks in advance for help...

Big Font Problems

Hi, I decided I'd still all the fonts from my old G4 Powermac onto my Macbook Pro and put them onto a memory dongle and started click and dragging the folders into Font Book (well over a thousand), during which it named quite a few files as corrupt and warned me not to install them.
Just as I went to tell it not to install them I brushed my dongle so and a warning message came up telling me the device was not removed properly, also Font Book crashed before I could tell it not to install fonts. All this whilst I was installing. I had to force quite the whole finder and restart and now when I go to open say Word, a screen comes up again and again stopping me from getting anywhwere saying:
"please remove font (say TImes) as it is corrupt", then once I've removed that font from font book, another one...then another one and another one, I've been here half a day deleting fonts, sometimes they are important fonts like Arial and Helvetica and it warns me not to delete them in Font Book because they are system fonts and could effect the running of some aplications, but at the same time Word tells me to delete them, I've had to dissable all my fonts because everything workds slow. I want to delete all my fonts and start again but from where can I recover the standard fonts my computer came with? And would I be risking any of the applications in the meantime?
What shall I do next and is there any quick way of distinguising the corrupt fonts (seems to be about half) from all the no corrupt fonts?
Cheers,
Ray
Sorry if this is a really thick question

OK solved.
Yes the problem was that although all the fonts were showing as normal in the system folder they were a few remaining fonts in Font Book (just the system ones) and they were deactivated, I've since activated and will not be touching it any longer as there's no need.
With Extensis it does tell you to not only have the system fonts active at all times but also Helvetica as many applications need that font, so I activated Helvetica out of the many versions I have. Only after further research what I should have done is activate specifically "Helvetica.dfont", that's the key and is the main font used in web pages like Google and Yahoo on Safari and Mail on macs, everything looks normal now. Also, after activating all the other system fonts listed above again the red star appeared back on the mail icon to notify me of new mail
Also what I like now that my fonts (around 20 thousand) have been orgonized sorted from roots up is that everything loads so speedily!..on boot up, when opening software like Word, Photoshop and Illustrator, which can often take ages if you have a wrongly placed big font collection.
OK, thanks for all the help guys, but guess what, I have ONE LAST PROBLEM, and I won't bother you any more, promise.
Last month, I had spent ages typing out the most perfect CV in word, I did a print version where I used variations of Helvetica, and an Email version for sending to office by Email where to avoid font substitution problems with PC users not having Helvetica I used Arial. I had a very tight layout with small letters, had a lot of trouble getting all my lines in there, as I used a table layout I'd made, and after a lot of tweaking and cursing had finally made things look perfect without tables jumping onto the next screen and leaving lots of white gaps. It was the ultimate perfect CV and a lot of people had commented on how it was so clear, and an example of how a CV should look as it wasn't over laden with graphics, stupid styles, overkill distracting font variations and colours etc etc.
Anyway, went to open them again just this evening to print and send out some more copies for a new job that's appeared and...nightmare! Everything is all over the place, fonts have been substituted to Times New Romany serif looking ones, and bold typefaces to some other crappy san serif. The tables that I'd spent ages making stay still have jumped all over the place due to font substitutions.
So obviously I went to Extensis Suitcase and made sure that all the Helveticas I have were activated (tonnes) and that all the Arial I have was activated. But when I went to re open word after re-starting it, sadly same problem.
Is there a fix for this?
MBP 17" C2D Mac OS X (10.4)

Corrupted fonts can't remove

Apparently I have some corrupted fonts which I have not been able to remove. I disable them, restart computer and some enabled again. Attempt to remove via comand, occasionally they appear in trash but some have the grayed out "remove font..."
Anyone have any suggestions? Lion OSX

Go to your Applications folder and launch Fontbook.
You can either select the one font you think is the problem.
Go under the File menu and select Validate Fonts
This brings up a Font Validation window. Here, if you get a little checkbox next to the font it’s good to go. If you get a yellow warning sign, there may be a problem, and if you get a red “x” then the font is corrupt.
You can then remove the corrupt fonts by checking the boxes next to them and clicking Remove Checked at the bottom of the program window

Solution for font problem using iTunes store (iTunes 9 @ Vista)

For all those of you who experience font problems rendering the iTunes store (I got partly jibberish many letters rendered as squares). For me it turned out that
my Arial fonts were corrupted (there were other files with the same font names residing in my Windows font directory). Deleting all Arial and installing them new from another Vista machine solved the problem.
I got to analyze the problem as follows: the rendering of the iTunes 9 store is done by the webkit. This reads a list of available fonts with files names from the registry and stores it in the file C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Apple Computer\WebKit\FontsList.plist (do not edit, it is generated each time you start iTunes anew). If you compare (e.g., using diffdaff) this file to the one of a Vista computer that does not show the font problem, you pretty soon realize which font family might cause the problem for you. For me it was Arial (which is used by Windows as a substitution for the Helvetica fonts BTW).

You can try to download items one at a time to get rid of this error message. Follow these steps for such:
1) Open iTunes.
2) From the Store pull-down menu at the top, choose Check for Purchases.
3) Enter your account name and password, then click Check. Your purchases should begin downloading.
4) Under the STORE section on the left, click Downloads.
5) Click the Pause All button in the lower-right corner. This will temporarily pause all of your downloads.
6) To resume only one of the downloads, click the refresh button that appears to the right of one of the paused downloads.
If that doesn't help, you may want to consider performing the following to be sure no software is conflicting with iTunes:
1.) Disable all anti-virus software you may have running
2.) Disable all firewall software you may have running
3.) Disable all web acceleration software you may have running
4.) If you are connected to the internet via an internet router, please disconnect it and connect directly via your broadband modem
Hope this helps =)

System Fonts Problem

I recently purchased a huge font library from Adobe and decided to delete all previous fonts in all locations (i know i shouldnt) I planned to replace them all with the main library i just bought.
But now i got problems booting up, the system loads but the top apple bar hides/unhides forever with corrupt fonts. I have tried networking from a pc but i can only access home directory not system. Im a bit stuck as i just moved out to Cyprus over Christmas and my desktop G4 is in UK and i just got my iBook G4 laptop. I cant format it because i dont have all the main software disks with me so my iBook would be useless.
Is there a way i can boot up from a cd? I know there is tech-tool pro etc but i dont have them. I tried re-installing system again with my original 10.3 cd's but it wont let me install over the previous system as i have updated it to 10.3.9 and i dont have enough HD space to install a clean copy.
Anyone please able to help? I think im pretty stuck without another mac to network to. Or is it possible to restore my trash within command line at boot? As all the fonts are still in my trash i just need to get them back into the system.

Wow,
You do have a problem. It is possible to do this from command line but way beyond what I could ever tell you how to do.
As the link that Ali posted, you now know what to put where but have no way to do it.
Place this post in the Unix section of the forum with a title like
"Need command line help. Desperate!!!"
Here is the forum
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735
In the future, make a boot disk for such problems and always have it with you. A boot disk is a cd that allows boot of your computer and gives you a primitive but funcional finder. With it you could boot your laptop (it might take half an hour), move the fonts from the trash and put them back where you want.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15196

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