Font Appearance:

Can you select a font, then (somehow) cause a qwerty keyboard to appear on your screen with the actual font character shown on each of the keys? This used to be possible with an OS many, many, versions ago. Then, by pressing the shift key you could see the upper case form of that character. I haven't seen that if it's possible with current OS's .

No, that is no longer possible. Good explantion here by Tom Gewcke.

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Hello,
we observed two problems when exporting a Keynote presentation into PDF ("export" and "print" exhibit the same behaviour):
(1) when opening the PDF in Preview, the medium-size fonts appear to be "bolder" than in the presentation, small fonts look OK. We have tried several fonts (e.g. Trebuchet), the effect seems to be independent of the font. Colors look exactly as in the presentation.
(2) when opening the same PDF in Acrobat 8 Pro on either Mac or PC, the fonts look OK but all colours look as if through a "milky glass layer". This is an effect which is probably related to some color space conversion.
A similar topic was discussed last November, but no satisfying solution was presented. Many thanks in advance for any help with this.

It doesn't seem to matter what the Registry/Ordering is - I still get the error. I do recall that setting it to something known like Adobe and Japan1 had other effects, though, such as incorrectly chosen glyphs, though those could have been related to other issues we had at the time.
Since any value seems to prompt the issue, it leaves me even more confused as to what could be the root of this problem. Distiller seems to bypass embedding CMaps by using the "Identity" encoding and simply writing the glyph indeces into the text stream. Does Preflight just not like embedded CMaps?
I have uploaded a sample document to acrobat.com if anyone wants to take a look. It has several changes from the original description, in an attempt to root out the problem. Here is the URL:
https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=4284cd55-d710-411f-8a91-51359564a78b
Thanks again for any help.

When I export documents as a PDF in Indesign the fonts appear as squares. This has started happening since I updated my operating system to 10.9.4 on my iMac.

When I export documents as a PDF in Indesign the fonts appear as squares. This has started happening since I updated my operating system to 10.9.4 on my iMac.

Apple Mail uses Apple's own PDF viewer, and it's ... well, let's be friendly and say not really up to par. Don't use it for anything else than ascertaining there is *something* in your mail. Then use the free Adobe Reader to view your PDF.
See this recent thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4526583

Font appearance jumping between light and bold

When I first open thunderbird in the morning, fonts appear bold [as if all unread] then if i quit thunderbird and try again it open with font as light, with only unread email showing as bold.
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Thunderbird 31.6.0
UTC/S 5.0.0
This is now happening on another mac with Yosemite installed. It worked for a few days and now not working

behnazutx wrote:
The first respondent indicated that when the design is made into a PDF, then the fonts are embedded and visible across platforms. Are there any situations I should be aware of in which this isn't the case? If that statement is true or generally true, that is good news, and will make me feel a lot more OK about this process.
I Googled "fonts that cannot be embedded in pdf" and these are the top 3 results:
Why Some Fonts Cannot Be Embedded In PDF
Cannot Embed font into InDesign PDF
Adobe Acrobat X Pro * Font embedding and substitution

Japanese fonts appear larger in Flash Player 10.0.42.34

Hi
We're experiencing a strange problem in a flash swf object embedded on an aspx page in a .net web application.
Environment :
Adobe Flash Player : 10.0.42.34
Browesers : IE 6 , 7 Firefox 3.5
Client machine configuration :
     Windows XP SP3
     East Asian Language Pack installed.
     Flash player version 10.0.42.34 installed.
We're displaying Japanese text on the page through the flash player.
What happens is that randomly on some client machines the Japanese fonts appear too large in size while on others
they appear perfectly fine.
We also have English , Honkkong and Chinese versions of the page ..all of which work perfectly fine across all client machines.
The issue is only with the Japanese version.
Any pointers on this guys .... ?
Please help !!!!
Thanks

Sure , here is the url :
http://www.forevermark.com/ja-jp/The-World-of-Forevermark-/Precious-Collection/
On some machines , the Japanese text in the centre section appears very large. ..( see attached snapshot)
We initially encountered this on the version prior to the 10.0.42.34 version.
However even after the upgrading to 10.0.42.34 , the problem still persists .
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PDFs from CS3, ligatures not showing up on editor's PC, fonts appearance changed

Hi there. I just redesigned a magazine using the Hypatia Sans family, Avenir family and Arno Pro family. Avenir is the one font I have been using. With both Hypatia and Arno, the ligatures totally drop out of the pdf when viewed on a PC. And, when the editor made the edits in the "comment-able" pdf and sent it back to me, really none of the fonts appear right. Nothing looks like Hypatia or Arno or Avenir. The font flow seems to stay put, but that is about it.
I'm trying to pinpoint this a little tighter. But while I'm doing that, I wanted to put this out here on the discussion boards. Since this is an entire magazine, it's not going to be acceptable to proof it this way. I don't know if I can send a pdf to someone at Adobe to look at and see what they think is happening? I'm not finding much on the boards about this either so I don't know if it's a widespread issue or not.
-K

Follow up ...
Kellie and I discussed and problem and then she checked with the editor.
In fact, the editor was putting PDF comments on the InDesign-exported PDF file using MacOS Preview and then saving the file and returning it via e-mail to Kellie. MacOS Preview converted all of the text from Arno Pro, Avenir and Hypatia Sans to MacOS versions of Multiple Master Helvetica and Multiple Master Times fonts which clearly did not have all the glyphs of the original fonts.
The editor was advised to download and install the free Adobe Reader and guess what? The problem went away.
Problem solved!
Sorry folks, but there is absolutely nothing that Adobe can do about this problem other than to continue to advise our customers to avoid PDF reader software that simply doesn't implement or doesn't properly implement the full PDF specification. (Note that this specification is an ISO standard now, not something that is secret or Adobe-proprietary in any way!)
- Dov

Why do fonts appear in Keynote, but not in Font Folder?

I made a misguided move in adding fonts through Font Book and am trying to restore my fonts to a previous iteration. Strangely though, the fonts appear in Keynote, but not in the usual Fonts folders. Can anyone shed light on why this might be the case? More information can be found, under the Mavericks discussion forum, here.

Suzanne,
As is my guess, there is now something wrong with those fonts. There are utilities, that can possibly repair them - two mentioned in the article. If you have a backup of the fonts, from when they worked, perhaps just going to that, and reinstalling them will solve the issue. I'd hate to think that they might have to be acquired all over again, but that might be "plan D."
Periodically, I will copy all of my fonts to DVD (now - used to be CD), just to have them available for new computers, or OS's. Over the decades, I have lost a few to corruption, that could not be repaired. In several cases, I had an older BU, that did work, but have had to buy a few again. Just checked on my workstation, and I've got 19,362, though seldom more than about 350 ever installed at one time.
This reminds me that it's about time to do another BU, as I will be getting a new workstation and laptop fairly soon, and will need to transfer my fonts to them.
Good luck, and hope that things can be saved - I hate to loose a favorite font.
Hunt

After upgrading to OS 10.10 some fonts appear blurry. Specifically top menu bar, desktop icons, mail

After upgrading to OS 10.10, some fonts appear blurry. Specifically top menu bar, desktop icons, mail and Safari. This only occurs after the computer has been running for awhile, not immediately after startup. I'm running an iMac, 20 inch, Mid-2007 with the following graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 128 MB.
It's not a huge problem, just darn annoying. Thoughts anyone?

Hi,
Please note that this upgrade related problem would very likely be what has been covered by the support document at the link below:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2537
If you also find any files named to include MessageSorting (which would mean you once have upgraded from a version of OSX earlier than 10.4, which is clearly the case for you), remove those, also, but never restore those.
Often this is all that needs to be done, but you might then need to force an overall reindexing via the removal of the Envelope Index. Note the special instructions when forcing the reindexing of IMAP or Exchange accounts in the following:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/3.0/en/14019.html
This will force the reindexing of all the POP mailboxes and all On My Mac mailboxes. With regard to any IMAP accounts if you have any, the practical result of this action of removing the account folder, is that with the IMAP account still set up in the Preferences, Mail will connect to the IMAP server and create a new account folder, and while doing so will index the messages in the mailbox folders of the IMAP accounts on the server.
Keep me posted.
Ernie

Private Fonts Appear in Numbers -- How?

I have a family of fonts (Swiss 721) installed privately in my ~/Library/Fonts folder.
When my wife logs into the computer, Swiss 721 does not show up in Pages or in Font Book. If she does a Spotlight search for "Swiss," nothing appears. This is the expected behavior.
However, when she runs Numbers, the Swiss 721 family of fonts shows up. They mostly work: Outline fonts show as outlines. Condensed fonts appear to be condensed. And bold fonts appear bold. They all seem to have spacing problems. There are no font warnings issued when she opens a Numbers document containing any of the Swiss 721 fonts.
I've tried using the atsutil to clear the font cache. I've tried deleting the iWork font cache as well. Neither has corrected the problem. When she starts up Numbers, there are these fonts that she cannot otherwise access. Very odd.
So, how is this font family showing up in Numbers for my wife when it is actually installed privately under my user directory? Somehow Numbers is seeing them, but not perfectly, since, as I mentioned, the spacing is way off.
Thank you,
James Detwiler

That was the solution. Auto activation was turned on.
There was a copy of the font on an external drive. Auto activation allowed that font to be used without being installed. (The font did not display correctly, which alerted us that something odd was happening.)
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Font appears as bold when published

hi all!
This font issue is driving me crazy..I have set the font to helvetica light on my site but when i publish the site on mobileme some sections appears as bold randomly. i have tried highlighting text and changing font type to helvetica light again but even though it appears as light in iweb when published it is still bold.
Is there an easy solution to this please?

I'm having the same issue as shannondasilva. Looks great offline in iweb but as soon as I publish my site the font appears bolder and thicker than it should. Very annoying and not consistent enough for Apple. Anyone worked out a way of making the font appear as it should without having to convert the text to an image, etc. I want my text to be found by google so it needs to remain as text. And yes I'm using standard Helvetica and Arial websafe fonts. Please can someone help here???

I upgraded to Firefox 6 random websites are using illegible fonts from my computer instead of the default. No issues with Firefox 5 or any other browser I use. Each time I open Firefox or reinstall it a different illegible font appears. Please help.

Firefox 6 using incorrect fonts.

When I delete the font that keeps showing up as the default, a new illegible font appears. The fonts are not 'garbled' they are just decorative typefaces that are being grabbed from my computer. I have never had an issue with my fonts on old Firefox versions or other browsers like chrome, safari, etc., so I don't think the issue is my fonts. I also don't want to have to delete all the fonts off of my computer. I uploaded another photo of when I deleted the font that was appearing before. Please help if anyone has found a solution to this problem with Firefox 6+ :/

When I type symbol font appears on screen and browswers fail to work properly, reboot fixes, new keybord fixed it but it now back? driving me crazy..virus???

when I type symbol font appears on screen (Safari, Mail, Firefox text boxes) and browswers fail to work properly (click on reply and browser tries to download), reboot will temp fixe, new keybord fixed it but it now back? driving me crazy..virus??? When this starts up iMac does not work properly, odd things, start happening, like all my screens will dissappear and I have to click on app to 'show' then as quick as it started it will stop. Run MacPilot/Onyx, no change.
Wireless keyborad, 27" i7 chipset, 2.8 Ghz,12 Gigs RAM

when I type symbol font appears on screen (Safari, Mail, Firefox text boxes) and browswers fail to work properly (click on reply and browser tries to download), reboot will temp fixe, new keybord fixed it but it now back? driving me crazy..virus??? When this starts up iMac does not work properly, odd things, start happening, like all my screens will dissappear and I have to click on app to 'show' then as quick as it started it will stop. Run MacPilot/Onyx, no change.
Wireless keyborad, 27" i7 chipset, 2.8 Ghz,12 Gigs RAM

Fonts appear white on some pages

On my work computer some pages show text as white (or maybe even clear) on a white background with Firefox (screen shot: http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~christin/temp/Firefox.JPG) while in IE the text appears fine (http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~christin/temp/IE.JPG). When I use a different computer, firefox shows the pages ok. I have tried changing the color options in Tools, Options, Content, Colors but no matter what combination I try the page is still white on white. I can select the text in Firefox and it will highlight but is still not readable when highlighted so the text might actually be clear if that is possible instead of white. I can copy and paste it into another program such as Word or Notepad and it appears fine. Not all web pages are affected but the ones that are make me have to switch to another browser to view them. This started sometime last year after a firefox update. I have also completely uninstalled Firefox and all the user information and reinstalled firefox but it didn't affect anything. I don't know what else to check.

Did you try yo clear the cache?
Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"
That text is specified as:
<pre><nowiki>font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;
color: #333;
font-size: 1em;
</nowiki></pre>
It is possible that you have a problem with the Helvetica font. Old, Mac bitmap versions of the Helvetica font have been mentioned a lot of times as causing problems in Firefox. You can try to uninstall all version of the Helvetica font in 'Control Panel > Font" to see if that helps.

Files (fonts) appear as Unix files when viewing on an SMB share

We have a UNIX server running Linux which our Mac users are connecting via SMB. We moved our company fonts to this server from an OSX Server. All of our machines are running 10.6.6 or later. Very intermittantly without any rhyne or reason some users when they mount the Font share, the Fonts show up as Unix files rather than the Fonts. On my machine (10.7) they all appear normally. Now I know that SMB was revamped in Lion so this may be the reason I can see them no problem. But the 10.6 machines, any suggestions on fixing this?

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The problem we have is when saving files to the server from the Snow Leopard machine, the older Tiger machines see the fonts as unix executable files. The snow leopard machine sees the files fine and can open everything with no problem.
This only happens when saving to a SMB server, as I can save the files from Snow Leopard to a flash drive and open on Tiger with no problems. Additionaly files saved from Tiger to the server are perfectly fine when accessing from Tiger or Snow Leopard.
We're running Windows 2008 Server and connecting via the macs using the SMB method. Also duplicated the issue on a Windows 2003 Server.

Same font appears different in two systems

The problem principally lies with transaction MM03 (Material Master - Display). The material description in "Additional Data" tab in any Material View is appearing to be of different fonts in two different client systems.
Upon checking, I found that both systems use the same font (Arial Monospace for SAP) with fotn size of 9.
Hence, I am not able to understand the difference in appearance of the two.
I have tried comapring I18N settings of both the systems. Please suggest a way to get rid of this problem.
Regards,
Ankur

HI,
Font depends on client.............so first check the client
Just check the SE73 Font download
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Font appears different in Muse (without smooth anti aliasing)

I am using Google Font Roboto and noticed that it appears thicker when i type it in Muse than in Photoshop. When i have anti-aliasing on 'Strong' in photoshop it mirrors what is showing in Muse, but i prefer the default Smooth anti-aliasing. Is there a way to turn this on in Muse?

Adobe Muse CC 2014 (font strong, bolder)
https://db.tt/JMZhwPtT
Photoshop CC 2014 (Correct version)
https://db.tt/QLQtxYZL
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