How do you get fonts to look normal after upgrade to snow leopard

fuzzy or blurred on both imac and external acer 24 inch monitor.
anyone know how to get them back to normal?

I was having the problem of fuzzy fonts in Terminal (which I use a lot, being a UNIX guy). I use 14 pt Bold Courier New a lot, and it was fuzzy after my SL upgrade on a 21" iMac (2 Ghz dual core). I finally discovered the "antialias text" button in the Terminal preferences. In my case it was turned on for all of my terminals that had fuzzy fonts. I unclicked this button in all of my terminal preferences, and voila, clear fonts again.

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As the title said, I just installed snow leopard I received today. Safari looks really odd (see the screenshot below. The toolbar and bookmarks bar have different colors). I had an unofficial theme installed on leopard. I didn't have it uninstalled before upgrading. Dose it account for this?? Anybody have idea about how to fix this? Thanks.
You can see the picture here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41947024@N06/3865661667/

The file you need to locate and remove is found here:
"~/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist"
I forgot to look inside it before I deleted it, but I can't imagine you're going to have any trouble after removing it.
For anyone who doesn't know how to remove this, you can pop open Terminal.app and paste the following command, which will put the file on your desktop for you to decide what to do with it. Then re-launch Safari.
"mv ~/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist ~/Desktop/GlobalPreferences.plist"

Lost fonts (maximo and others) after upgrading to snow leopard

Did anyone else notice missing fonts after upgrading and/or updating? I opened up a file created before the upgrade and I was notified of about 5 missing fonts...not cool.
Thanks!

mhh - bad news.
To the background: In Pages there are some templates. I took one of them (2-3 years ago) and redesigned it for my use. I didn't changed any Fonts. Some changes for borders etc - nothing more.
Before I installed the fresh Lion installation it works. On the harddisk was installed 10.2 - 10.7 (with all the upgrades).
My opinion is, that the Font is a part of the templates or a part of OS X 10.x. I have no problem to reinstall the font (all DVD's are working), but where should I start searching for the font ;-)
To buy the font is one way ... the last path.

How do you get your songs to play after you authorized the computer your on?

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Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music from iPod back to the computer. However, it does not transfer playcounts/ratings etc.
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Getting warning message in my webmail after upgrading to snow leopard

Hi,
After upgrading to Snow Leopard Server, I'm getting strange warning messages in my web mail,
Find the warning messages below, Looking forward to your support.
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the datedefault_timezoneset() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Asia/Calcutta' for 'IST/5.0/no DST' instead in /usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/date.php on line 420
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the datedefault_timezoneset() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Asia/Calcutta' for 'IST/5.0/no DST' instead in /usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/date.php on line 95
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the datedefault_timezoneset() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Asia/Calcutta' for 'IST/5.0/no DST' instead in /usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/date.php on line 347
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Gulab Pasha

The general approach at this time is to ask if you've checked for any problematic fonts (all languages) with Apple's Font Book (look in the Applications folder). Find and remove all duplicates also.
SL may have taken the initiative and quarantined what it determined were borked fonts and put them aside to avoid calamity.
Also, don't hesisate to perform wholesale deletion of old and/or little used fonts - be skeptical of anything that has come from Office 2008, including those related to an Equation Editor installation.
That said, rumor has it that the next update will correct some spurious font handling....best to wait if housecleaning doesn't help at this time.

HT1338 How do i get mountain lion when my system is pre snow leopard? Maybe 4 years old??

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You can upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion or directly from Snow Leopard. Mountain Lion can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for $19.99. To access the App Store you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later installed.
Upgrading to Snow Leopard
You can purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard — Apple Store (U.S.). The price is $19.99 plus tax. You will be sent physical media by mail after placing your order.
After you install Snow Leopard you will have to download and install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 to update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8 and give you access to the App Store. Access to the App Store enables you to download Mountain Lion if your computer meets the requirements.
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       5. Some features require a compatible Internet service provider;
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       6. Some features require Apple’s iCloud services; fees and
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Upgrading to Lion
If your computer does not meet the requirements to install Mountain Lion, it may still meet the requirements to install Lion.
You can purchase Lion by contacting Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service — this includes international calling numbers. The cost is $19.99 (as it was before) plus tax. It's a download. You will get an email containing a redemption code that you then use at the Mac App Store to download Lion. Save a copy of that installer to your Downloads folder because the installer deletes itself at the end of the installation.
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I have a new Macbook Pro that came with Leopard installed and the Drop-in Snow Leopard dvd. I upgraded to Snow Leopard as soon as I got it home and then used migration assistant to migrate from a cloned back up of my old macbook which was running Tiger. I have also installed Logic Express and subsequently now seem to have a number of problems that make me think that the best thing to do would be to get everything back to the factory condition and start again. The only thing I need to preserve are my emails as I haven't really put anything else on the computer yet as all my photos and music are on an external drive. I have Mobile Me so my emails should all be stored on that somewhere ( I think?)
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Hi. I was having slowness problems with my Macbook Pro and thought I would re-install Lion but put Snow Leopard back on by mistake. I bought the computer used with Lion on it and don't have access to the USB drive or a username/password to reinstall Lion. Now I can't access Mail or iPhoto since I put Snow Leopard on.
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The current driver version is 8.67.
Delete you printer.
Delete the folder /Library/Prnters/EPSON
Delete the folder /Library/Caches/Epson
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Script Gets Error After Upgrading to Snow Leopard

Hi, everyone - I have several Applescripts I'm running that mostly import Entourage emails into Filemaker Pro (retrieving data from forms submitted) - everything worked fine until I upgraded to Snow Leopard recently! I need to get this working ASAP since a client is waiting on it and I have no idea what I need to change to make it work! I'm getting the following error now upon the import of the 1st email:
error "Can’t get text item 1 of \"\"." number -1728 from text item 1 of ""
I will post the script below. ANY help so greatly appreciated!!
- Jacki
=============
activate application "Microsoft Entourage"
-- get messages from Entourage
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set mail_count to count message of folder "Mailing List" of folder "Judith's Site" of folder "OO Mail" of folder "Inbox"
set query_number to 0
if mail_count > 0 then
repeat with i from 1 to mail_count
try
set subject_field to subject of message i of folder "Mailing List" of folder "Judith's Site" of folder "OO Mail" of folder "Inbox"
set the_months to "January February March April May June July August September October November December"
set message_date to time sent of message i of folder "Mailing List" of folder "Judith's Site" of folder "OO Mail" of folder "Inbox"
set mess_year to year of message_date as string
set mess_day to day of message_date as string
set day_count to count characters in mess_day
if day_count = 1 then set mess_day to "0" & mess_day
set mess_month to month of message_date as string
repeat with x from 1 to count words in the_months
if mess_month = word x of the_months then set month_count to x as string
end repeat
set monthnumbercount to count characters in month_count
if monthnumbercount = 1 then set month_count to "0" & month_count
set entry_date to month_count & "/" & mess_day & "/" & mess_year
set full_name to display name of sender of message i of folder "Mailing List" of folder "Judith's Site" of folder "OO Mail" of folder "Inbox" as string
set word_count to count words in full_name
set first_name to word 1 of full_name
if word_count = 1 then
set last_name to ""
else if word_count = 2 then
set last_name to word 2 of full_name
else if word_count = 3 then
set last_name to word 3 of full_name
else if word_count > 3 then
set last_name to word 3 of full_name
end if
set message_body to content of message i of folder "Mailing List" of folder "Judith's Site" of folder "OO Mail" of folder "Inbox"
end try
set paragraph_number to count paragraphs in message_body
if (subject_field is not "") and (subject_field contains "E-mail List Form Submission!") then
set query_number to query_number + 1
if my importdata(entrydate, first_name, last_name, message_body, paragraph_number) is 0 then
display dialog "failure at message number " & i
end if
end if
end repeat
end if
end tell
tell application "FileMaker Pro"
with timeout of 1200 seconds
if query_number = 0 then
display dialog "There were no new responses."
else
display dialog "There were " & query_number & ¬
" records added to the database." buttons {"Cancel", "Okay"} default button "Okay"
end if
end timeout
end tell
on importdata(entrydate, first_name, last_name, message_body, paragraph_number)
set old_delimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {": "}
--specify Filemaker and corresponding Web site fields names {Filemaker,Web}:
set field_names to ¬
{{"FULL_NAME", "realname"}, ¬
{"EMAIL", "email"}, ¬
{"ADDRESS", "Address"}, ¬
{"CITY", "city"}, ¬
{"STATE", "state"}, ¬
{"ZIP", "zip"}, ¬
{"COUNTRY", "country"}, ¬
{"PHONE", "phone"}}
set count_fields to count field_names
--import data
activate application "FileMaker Pro"
tell application "FileMaker Pro"
open "Macintosh HD:Users:jacki:Documents:Judith Matz:Mailing List - Judith.fp7"
set this_record to create record
go to this_record
set data cell "FIRST" of this_record to first_name
set data cell "LAST" of this_record to last_name
set data cell "ENTRY_DATE" of this_record to entry_date
set data cell "STATUS" of this_record to "edit"
repeat with current from 1 to paragraph_number
set current_paragraph to paragraph current of message_body
repeat with i from 1 to count_fields
if first text item of current_paragraph is item 2 of item i of field_names then
set this_field to item 1 of item i of field_names
set field_data to second text item of current_paragraph
set data cell this_field of this_record to field_data
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to old_delimiters
end import_data

The main differences that can cause a problem are scripting additions (64-bit vs 32-bit and security reasons) and the usage of dates (it is not as forgiving). AppleScript itself is basically the same, so if empty paragraphs are what caused your problems the update would have just been a coincidence.

How do you get fonts to look normal after upgrade to snow leopard

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