Fonts shifting in Snow Leopard Flash CS4

We have noticed Fonts shift down in our layouts. Our files are very messed up. One particular font that is doing this is TheMix. Anyone else have this happening? Any fixes out there? The same file opens and displays just fine under Leopard.

I just want to add that we have the same problem. Fonts seems to gain some additional line spacing for no reason.
They render just fine under 10.5, but when you open the very same file in Snow Leopard, most of text if shifted down.
The font in question is TVNord family.
Adobe, please fix it as soon as humanly possible!
Looks like a huge problem with how fonts rendering is handled in Snow Leopard.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2154431&tstart=135&start=15

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Snow Leopard and CS4 are NOT Compatible!

I waited a year to upgrade from 10.5 (always the latest version) and I'm so sorry I did it. InDesign takes 10-20 minutes to launch and open one file. My font manager stopped working (Font Agent Pro; latest version) and Photoshop frequently gets caught in an error loop when I launch and open a file and I have to trash my prefs and reboot to make it stop. I've researched online and there is no improvement to be gained by getting CS5. My productivity is grinding to a halt and I wish I'd never upgraded. Thank Goodness I left 10.5.8 on my laptop, but it's a shame not to be able to work on my tower with the big monitor. When is Apple going to fix this?

Nothing to fix. The CS4 and CS5 apps both work just fine for me under Snow Leopard on an early 2008 Mac Pro.
Did you install 10.6 over 10.5? If you did, the system was likely already damaged. It's common for a major upgrade to cause those errors to come forward.
Back up what you need to and do an erase and install of Snow Leopard. Apply all updates and reinstall your applications. A lot of work, I know, but that should do it.

Snow Leopard + Flash 10.3.181.14 Plugin + Freeze

• Mac OS X 10.6.7
• MacPro 12GB RAM
• Latest Safari Build
• Flash Plugin (System Preferences Pane) 10.3.181.14
• Adobe Flash CS4 10.0.2
• Coda 1.7
While all Flash objects in all of my browsers (Safari, Chrome, FF, etc) work perfectly, when using Coda to view the websites (which runs using Safari's webkit engine and resources), certain Flash objects cause the Coda program to freeze, and then Coda needs to be Force Quitted.
This was not an issue with the same version of Coda on Leopard, 10.5.x. I also noticed 10.5.x does not use a Flash plugin preference pane. 10.5 has Flash version 10.2. No such problems there.
Visually, every few times the Flash object in question would load, but it would have visual artifacts and random lines, rather than the actual content. It looks very similar to an overclocked, overheated video card screen. See attached screenshot from Coda, vs. Safari. After the glitch happens, the next load of the SWF file causes a program freeze.
Coda's Browser:
Correct View (Safari):
I was able to view the error log in Coda, and came up with this:
6/2/11 2:57:02 PM [0x0-0x106106].com.panic.Coda[3081] Thu Jun 2 14:57:02 mac.domain.com Coda[3081] <Error>: CGBitmapContextCreate: unsupported parameter combination: 8 integer bits/component; 32 bits/pixel; 3-component color space; kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst; 536612288 bytes/row.
6/2/11 2:57:02 PM Coda[3081] NSExceptionHandler has recorded the following exception:
NSUncaughtSystemExceptionException -- Uncaught system exception: signal 10
Stack trace: 0x951d6378 0x90a8c45b 0xffffffff 0x92895f60 0x92896897 0x9261bf05 0x9261b2d0 0x9261af18 0x924fdc35 0x93cf782a 0x93cf64c8 0x924fd79a 0x93cf67fd 0x93cf67fd 0x93cf67fd 0x93cf67fd 0x93cf67fd 0x93cf49e7 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf455b 0x93cf0ea2 0x93c51a57 0x93c1ad40 0x93c4c28a 0x9091de02 0x908d9d8d 0x908d9464 0x908d9291 0x90123e04 0x90123bb9 0x90123a3e 0x93c2278d 0x93c21fce 0x93be4247 0x93bdc2d9 0x2a82 0x29a9 0x2
6/2/11 2:57:03 PM Coda[3081] A possible error occurred: (NSUncaughtSystemExceptionException) Uncaught system exception: signal 10
NSExceptionHandlerUncaughtSignalHandler (in ExceptionHandling) + 65
_sigtramp (in libSystem.B.dylib) + 43
0xffffffff
CAOpenGLLayerDraw(CAOpenGLLayer*, double, CVTimeStamp const*, unsigned int) (in QuartzCore) + 1026
-[CAOpenGLLayer _display] (in QuartzCore) + 512
CALayerDisplayIfNeeded (in QuartzCore) + 621
CA::Context::commit_transaction(CA::Transaction*) (in QuartzCore) + 362
CA::Transaction::commit() (in QuartzCore) + 316
-[WebHTMLView drawRect:] (in WebKit) + 629
-[NSView _drawRect:clip:] (in AppKit) + 3510
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in AppKit) + 1600
-[WebHTMLView(WebPrivate) _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in WebKit) + 266
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in AppKit) + 2421
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in AppKit) + 2421
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in AppKit) + 2421
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in AppKit) + 2421
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in AppKit) + 2421
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 711
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSThemeFrame _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 265
-[NSView _displayRectIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:] (in AppKit) + 3309
-[NSView displayIfNeeded] (in AppKit) + 818
-[NSWindow displayIfNeeded] (in AppKit) + 204
_handleWindowNeedsDisplay (in AppKit) + 696
__CFRunLoopDoObservers (in CoreFoundation) + 1186
__CFRunLoopRun (in CoreFoundation) + 557
CFRunLoopRunSpecific (in CoreFoundation) + 452
CFRunLoopRunInMode (in CoreFoundation) + 97
RunCurrentEventLoopInMode (in HIToolbox) + 392
ReceiveNextEventCommon (in HIToolbox) + 354
BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode (in HIToolbox) + 81
_DPSNextEvent (in AppKit) + 847
-[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] (in AppKit) + 156
-[NSApplication run] (in AppKit) + 821
NSApplicationMain (in AppKit) + 574
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start (in Coda) + 41
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However, I could not find any issues in the console raised directly by Flash or Adobe. I'll be cross posting this in the Coda user support group.
What's going on here? Why would this only happen through Coda, which is basically using Safari's engine?

I should add that the SWF object in question here is being loaded dynamically through a lightbox style jQuery plugin. The SWF itself is using SWFobject2 to load. Finally, the SWF object's parent containers are often switched between display: none and display: block.
Again, only the built-in Coda browser has issue with all of this.

HT1338 Font Problems with Snow Leopard

I'm having font problems after updating to Snow Leopard. It seems to have problems with spacing the fonts properly and reading some fonts properly in Page and Keynote. Any suggestions of how to fix it?

Dear Kurt,
in bigger companies thinks come slow :-) Actually we are switching from 10.4.11 with Quark 6.52 and FontReserve to 10.6.8 with Adobe CS5 and FontBook.
And as you may guess we're running directly into the HelveticaNeue problem.
We cleaned up the system fonts so that only the absolutly needed are in /Sys/Lib/Fonts/ and all other fonts (from MacOS and our own) are in /Lib/Fonts/ where they are in folders for better handling.
The number of additional fonts were radically stripped down to the REALLY needed (about 70 fonts with their families).
We removed the protected fonts and replaced Helvetica, HelveticaNeue, Times, Symbol and ZapfDingbats with PS Type1 fonts.
Our goal was to have no font conflicts to keep our users save. In addition we put fonts in predefinded collections to switch them on/off with an AppleScript that picks the collection name.
And from here it went fancy: The Apple apps are working fine but external app like Adobe CS5 and MS Office only see the fonts in /Sys/Lib/Fonts/.
When we put the HelveticaNeue.dfont back (no matter if it's in the system or at ~/Lib/Fonts/) the other apps also get all installed fonts. We found out that this works even if the HelveticaNeue.dfont is deactivated.
Unfortunately this brings up two problems:
The HelveticaNeue.dfont can't be put to a font collection without taking the corresponding font from the Type1 font with it, so it's more difficult to handle with the AppleScript (we have to pick the exact single name).
The second is that if something goes wrong and all fonts are switched to active we have a font conflict and the possibility that the dfont is used in documents.
I think I have read all (ok, many :-) of your posts about the Helvetica problem in 10.6 as well as your really great document about font handling in OS X.
But I wasn't able to get it to work.
Do you have the one big hint for me???
Thanks and best regards... Udo

Font problem in snow leopard

Up until I installed snow leopard I had access to a whole range of helvetica fonts.
When I installed snow leopard I was prompted about a conflict which I opted to choose "resolve".
After this I no longer had access to these fonts.
I attempted to reopen them with font book and they show no conflicts, yet I can't choose them as they are not visible.
I rebooted both the computer and quarkxpress 8 and still do not see them, yet they are visible in font book menu. (click on link)
Can someone please guide me so that I can get my fonts back?
I seem to recall they were marked as postscript fonts.
I know very little about using font book, so please give me step by step if possible.
Your advice is appreciated.
Thanks
The fonts show up in both "All Fonts" and "User Fonts"
http://i38.tinypic.com/1564isl.jpg
http://i33.tinypic.com/2v0dbgz.jpg

Hellol Frank,
Most of what you write about is for user who open and close fonts, I leave mine open all time, does that make a difference?
Regardless of a person's preference of having fonts open or closed, Apple's versions of Helvetica are preventing you from opening the versions of Helvetica you require because they conflict. Font Book absolutely will not let deactivate Apple's fonts (nor will any other font manager). To use your Helvetica fonts, you must manually remove Apple's versions.
I show the following fonts in my System>Library>Fonts folder:
HelveL TMM
Helvetica LT MM
Helvetica.dfont
HelveticaNeue.ttc
The Multiple Master fonts are fine. It's Helvetica.dfont and HelveticaNeue.ttc that are preventing you from opening your preferred versions of these fonts.
Do I undertand that I should drag these out of the folder, or do I delete them in some other way?
As noted in the article, you must do this in two places. First remove Helvetica.dfont and HelveticaNeue.ttc from the ProtectedFonts folder. If you don't do that, OS X immediately copies certain fonts from the ProtectedFonts folder if you try to remove them from /System/Library/Fonts/ folder.
Once the fonts are gone from the ProtectedFonts folder, you'll be able to permanently remove them from the /System/Library/Fonts/ folder. Once in the trash, restart the Mac and you should be able to use any version of Helvetica you want.
Also noted in the article, make copies of Apple's versions somewhere else first. Then you'll be able to activate them like any other font with your font manager. The rules against having more than one version of Helvetica active still applies though. You can't have Apple's fonts and any other like version of Helvetica active at the same time regardless of their location on the hard drive.

Disaster!!! Snow Leopard crashes CS4, mail, etc....

Hi!
I am hoping I can get some answers and solutions as to why snow leopard is crashing my programs. CS4 and Mail. That's what I know of so far as I use them the most.
As soon as I go to try to save an image in CS4 it crashes. Every time! And when I try to attach an image (jpg) in Mail it crashes.
I am a photographer so working in CS4 is a daily thing for me. So, I had to wipe my HD and reinstall 10.5.
Are there any solutions out yet that can stop snow leopard from crashing my programs!?
UGH!! Snow leopard is so disappointing and I wish I never spent the money on it so far...

I am rather disappointed that I updated to Snow Leopard as quickly as I did. I'm not a techie so my terminology may be off, but I just find SL to be unstable. Some of the issues I have:
- I have a Western Digital 2 TB drive to be my designated storage device for Time Machine, but, with the green disk icon, Time Machine indicates a different Western Digital be the storage unit.
- My mail crashes everytime I try and print an email that has an attachment.
- My mail crashes every time I try and save an email with an attachment as a PDF.
- My line out speakers are put on mute every time I restart my computer.
- My wireless connection is dropped either during the course of being on line or when I restart my computer (I use a Cisco box for wireless and none of the other 4 computers using Leopard on this network loose their connections. I have to shut down the Cisco and restart it to get my connection back on the SL computer.)
- I was completely logged off of .Mac and lost my primary mail inbox as a result of this.
- My dock settings randomly changed.
- My Adobe Bridge Crashes upon starting it.
It's like little quirks. Nothing terribly major but little gremlins that make the initial SL experience highly frustrating.

Snow Leopard & Photoshop CS4: Scratch Disk Error (app won't open)

Snow Leopard and Photoshop CS4 have at least one incompatibility worth noting thus far. If you have a secondary disc on your system that is setup to be your primary scratch disk in Photoshop's Preferences you might be unable to open your application.
In order to fix that, go to Macintosh HD/Users/YOUR_ACCOUNT/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CS4 Settings/ and remove the Adobe Photoshop CS4 Prefs.psp file
Then Photoshop will open.
NOTE: You must leave your Macintosh HD as your primary scratch disk in Photoshop's preferences until Adobe fixes this issue.

HI Chris,
We are having significant problems with CS4 crashng and not saving work after it has been completed and saved onto our server. I would rather not re-format my machine. Any ideas?
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Snow Leopard Flash Player Security Vulnerability

In the "What were they thinking?" department, various sources are warning about security vulnerabilities in the older version of Flash Player that is included with the Snow Leopard installation. It is recommended that the newest version of the Flash Player be downloaded from the Adobe web site and installed. D'oh!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10344478-37.html

Raymon:
You should probably be updating Excel to 10.1.6 anyway; then run the new Security update. In fact, if you're running Excel with MS Office X, I there's a combined updater to take care of all the products in that Suite. (Run repair permissions from Disk Utility before installing.)
I wouldn't be concerned with older flash files you have previously put on your Mac. I'd just install the new security update(s) and go on with enjoying your Mac.
Yes, you'll also want to update the Shockwave Player or other Flash-based Macromedia software you might have installed, based on the listing at the bottom of that referenced site.
I'm not really surprised about views/replies. "Vulnerabilities" don't necessarily mean that there's anything vicious roaming around the net right now, but rather that something in the software code was discovered that might allow such things to be enabled. If something affecting Macs was running rampant, I suspect that it would be reported everywhere very quickly.
Gary

I pre-ordered Snow Leopard - and CS4 ?

Amazon is taking pre-orders for the September release of Mac OS 10.6 - Snow Leopard. Mine is now on order.
And - my question is - will Photoshop CS4 (and related Creative Suite programs) work on 10.6 ?????
I will make the swap on my least-used computer to do the test.
Anyone have insight into the Adobe-Mac testing to se if it will work? PS CS5 has not been announced so far - so it looks like there will be a CS4/10.6 period of overlap.
Dick

Well Adobe can't publicly state they test what isn't generally available. So its safe to say that no official tests will be announced or discussed at least until 10.6 hits the streets.
In most cases though the Adobe products work fine with general OS releases. For instance. CS2 works on anything newer than OS10.3.9. Granted there are a few issues with OS10.5, but it still works.
I wouldn't anticipate any major issues with CS4 and OS10.6. However, I DO anticipate issues with OS10.6 Apple doesn't get to a solid release until x.0.3 or x.0.4 -- after they've used the general public as beta testers.
For my money.... I NEVER purchase the first release of an OS. I always wait until there are 3 or 4 updates to it.

Snow Leopard + Adobe CS4 +Freezes

I'm a Graphic Designer and use Adobe CS4 apps. While using Illustrator on my iMac (2006), the app freezes after about ten minutes. I'm thinking I should just UNINSTALL Snow Leopard since it worked fine before. I've updated everything since this problem began with no results.
If I uninstall will Tiger remain?
iMac4,1 Mac OS X (10.6.4) 1.83 GHz 1GB

No. The only way to uninstall is recover your backup, or use one of these options:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1308817&tstart=10
Before jumping down that bandwagon, remember CS4 requires a lot of RAM, and 1 GB is the minimum for Snow Leopard. You can try to make sure everything is running for 32bit:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2176255&tstart=0
And upgrading the RAM to the max your machine allows*:
http://www.macmaps.com/badram.html
It might work, then again might not. As you can see CS4's record with Snow Leopard is not that great:
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
Best to be prepared before making such a big leap.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

Font Issues with Snow Leopard 10.6.1

I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and have noticed a strange thing happening in Illustrator CS4. When I edit any text in "Preview" mode, the changes don't take. But if I switch to "Outline" mode, the text has changed. Back to "Preview", it hasn't. If I save the document, close it, and reopen it, the changes reflect in the "Preview" mode. Very weird!
Is anyone else experiencing this strange thing happening?

No ! Here!

Font Issues with Snow Leopard

I just got a new iMac G5 (21.5"), and I've tried to install a few fonts that have worked fine on my previous iMac G5 with OSX 10.5. I installed the font by putting it in Font Book, but when I try to type with it (DIN) in pages, it all comes up in gibberish. This isn't an upgrade to Snow Leopard, this is a brand new computer, so I couldn't find much insight into this problem anywhere else on the form. Strangely enough DIN works fine in Mail, but when I try to use it in almost any other program it turns into complete nonsense. Anyone have luck figuring this out? I've deleted it and installed several times already with no luck.

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Since purchasing my new 27" iMac with Snow Leopard and instlaling Adobe Creative Suites 4, I have had numerous font issues. Apple has created huge problems for designers and printers that must use postscript type 1 fonts for helvetica and helvetica neue. Read more about this issue and some creative solutions (workarounds) go to http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers&discussionID=1090421 4&gid=75556&commentID=9732351&trk=view_disc

Such font issues have also been discussed at some length in these forums, you can find it all by searching, e.g.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2136944&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2154431&tstart=0
A basic reference used here that you may find of value is:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html

Snow Leopard & Photoshop CS4...

Hi:
I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.1 with Photoshop CS4 on a Mac Pro Dual 2.8 Quad Core Intel Xeon. The video card I have is this:
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT:
Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 2600
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x9588
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-B1480A-252
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.252
My problem is this, if I enable 'Open GL' in Photoshop preferences, Photoshop will crash. If I disable 'Open GL' in Photoshop it will not crash. My understanding is that Open GL isn't properly supported by the video card. I am a little surprised as this Mac isn't that old and I thought Snow Leopard might install proper drivers for this.
Any ideas on what I might try to solve this problem?
Thank you, Glenn

An additional link of interest might be:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/09/afew_problems_found_with_pssl.html
Both were obtained from:
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
Which you should use to determine if all your software is compatible in the first place.

Re: SeaMonkey Snow Leopard Flash compatibility

System: OS X.6.8 Snow Leopard
Browser: SeaMonkey 2.25
Flash Player: currently installed is version 10.3.183.86
The Adobe Flash Player page on compatibility by operating system and latest version of Flash Player
only mentions SeaMonkey under the Linux operating system. Under Mac OS it mentions Safari, etc.
but not SeaMonkey.
What is the latest version of Flash compatible with both Snow Leopard and with SeaMonkey???

jim301 wrote:
Mike, thanks. I see that on some of your other posts you recommended a clean install, deleting a couple files. Do you think it wise I clean and then install Flash 12?
Unless you experience trouble with a regular install, it isn't necessary... more thorough, yes, and it doesn't take much longer, but it's not a necessity.
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