In Mountain Lion, bold fonts are being rendered misaligned.

In Mountain Lion, bold fonts are being rendered misaligned, like shadowed text, when printed or saved as PDF. See example image. Same text is fine in Lion. Any solutions?

I had this issue as well, googled a bit and found a solution that works just peachy...
1. Open terminal
2. defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 0
3. Restart applications

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Some web fonts are not rendered

When I visit some sites that use web fonts, the web fonts are not rendered. It does not render with the wrong font - the text is completely invisible.
On other sites, web fonts work just fine, and I cannot understand why some web fonts work and some don't.
Examples of non-working sites:
http://blog.mailchimp.com/ (headers shown, article text missing)
https://www.sbab.se/ (huge top header missing)
http://onlinepizza.se/ (headers and button texts missing)
Examples of working sites:
http://www.google.com/fonts
http://www.typetester.org/
On the Network -> Fonts tab in the inspector, no downloads are shown on the broken sites. Is there a font cache that I can delete?
I have tried uninstalling firefox, deleting all profiles and installing it again. Nothing changes.

Works fine here on Linux.
Right-click > "Inspect Element" > Font shows:
*http://blog.mailchimp.com/ Copyright (C) H&FJ | typography.com (Whitney SSm B) & Copyright (C) H&FJ | typography.com (Whitney SSm A)
*https://www.sbab.se/ SBABSansStencilBeta-Bold
*http://onlinepizza.se/Stockholm/ MuseoSans-700
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Reload web page(s) and bypass the cache to refresh possibly outdated or corrupted files.
*Hold down the Shift key and left-click the Reload button
*Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
*Press "Command + Shift + R" (Mac)

Running Snow Leopard on Mountain Lion host VM (and being able to develop apps)

I am a MacBook Pro owner and a game developer who wants to port his previous games for iOS.
My Mac came with Mountain Lion. The game engine that we used can't be compiled with Mountain Lion (it uses Allegro 4 library, which uses libraries deprecated by newer Mac OSX versions). I don't think it will take a short time for our game engine to be compatible with Allegro 5, so working in Snow Lion seems to be our solution in this case.
I have read that you can't install Snow Leopard to new Mac, replacing the main OS. But I know that it's possible to install it in virtual machine, hosted by Mountain Lion. My questions are,
* Can it be upgraded to the latest Snow Leopard? I have read that some guy tried it with his pirate copy of SL and he bricked his virtual machine. I won't suffer the same fate because I will have purchased SL, right?
* Will I be able to use XCode 3.2.6 AND submit my iOS game from virtual machine?
It would be great if I could use Snow Leopard without buying a new (actually, old) Mac. I already feel like being punished just because we aren't at the year when Snow Leopard was the current OS.
Thank you very much,
Ahmet "Gord10" Kamil Keles

Additional information and links.
Parallels
VirtualBox
VM Fusion
Snow Leopard server for use with the above. Call 1-800-692-7753 and order part number MC588Z/A. Cost is $19.99 + sales tax and shipping.

Mountain Lion .otf font issue

Hello,
Some of the fonts that I have uploaded onto my mac are not responding properly - mainly the system is not recognising the postscript name and therefore the whole family of a font does not show up in the Adobe Suite.
For Example - if I upload Gotham Family, the files look like this: gotham-medium.otf, gotham-thin.otf etc. Only some of the instences work for example Gotham Thin is available to use in adobe and shows up in my fontexplorer. But the gotham-medium just indicates Gotham (no medium, conflicts with gotham regular and doesn't show up in adobe).
I have gone in and looked at the name of the Gotham family font individully. The ones that don't work have ie: Full Name: Gotham, Name & Extension: Gotham-Medium. If they do work it looks like this: ie: Full Name: Gotham Thin, Name & Extension: Gotham-thin.
My Question is - How can fonts from the same suite react differently? How do I get the ones with the Family Name as Gotham to be known by their postscript extension name?
I've googled my heart out and even tried to just upload them to fontbook with the same issue. Also tried placing in Libray/font folder.
Thank you
Mountain Lion 10.8.5
Fontexplorer x Pro 4

First thought. Is Font Book still on your Mac? If it is, get rid of it. You should never have more than one font manager on your system at a time.
1) The OS will tell you it can't delete Font Book if you try to trash it. Ignore the dire warning that it's indispensable. It's not. Highlight Font Book and press Command+I, or choose Get Info from the the top menu bar. Click on the lock at the lower right of the Get Info dialog box and enter your Administrator password. Expand the Sharing & Permissions heading if necessary. There are three permissions states, the first of which is already Read & Write. Change the other two, which are currently Read only, to Read & Write. Close the Get Info box. You can now move Font Book to the trash with no interference from the OS.
2) Next, you need to remove Font Book's database, which will continue to interfere with your preferred font manager even though the app itself is gone.
Restart your Mac and immediately hold down the Shift key when you hear the startup chime to boot into Safe Mode. Keep holding the Shift key until you see a progress bar towards the bottom of the screen. You can let go of the Shift key at that point.
OS X asks you to log in (you will get this screen on a Safe Mode boot even if your Mac is set to automatically log in). Let the Mac finish booting to the desktop and then restart normally. This will clear Font Book's database and the cache files of the user account you logged into in Safe Mode.
3) Lastly, clear all font cache data. Close all running applications. From an administrator account, open the Terminal app and enter the following command. You can also copy/paste it from here into the Terminal window:
sudo atsutil databases -remove
Terminal will then ask for your admin password. As you type, it will not show anything, so be sure to enter it correctly.
This removes all font cache files. Both for the system and the current user font cache files. After running the command, close Terminal and immediately restart your Mac.
Do note that these steps may not solve any issues with the fonts themselves, but it will remove any possible head butting between different font managers.

How do I disable FireWire in Mountain Lion? Where are my Mountain Lion FireWire kexts?

I just installed Mountain Lion and when starting up in verbose mode the output starts printing this in an endless loop:
ERROR: FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 8025 built-in: handleUnrecoverableErrorInt
I have had this error before, and I am aware that my FireWire port is fried. Ever since 10.5 I have resolved this problem by booting via Safe Mode and removing my firewire kernel extensions:
sudo mv /System/Library/Extensions/IOFireWire* /Users/karl/Desktop/
This does the trick. After that, I have no problems with my computer (other than never being able to use FireWire). I have to repeat this process every time I update or upgrade my OS. By doing this, I get a few more years out of a late 2007 MacBook Pro at the cost of not having FireWire. I'm OK with that.
But I just upgraded to Mountain Lion, am back in the startup hang, and I cannot find any FireWire kexts in the Extensions folder whatsoever. Where are they? Or does anyone know how to get rid of FireWire in Mountain Lion?

Hi Topher,
Before I saw your post and had a chance to try it, I complicated things by going into Safe Mode and moving some other IO extensions to my Desktop. Since I couldn't find IOFireWire* related kexts, I moved some other kexts starting with "IO" that I mistakenly thought might be related to FireWire. I don't recall all of them, but IOStorageFamily, IOPCIFamily, and IODVDFamily were in there. Naturally this didn't work and I'm facepalming a lot right now.
I figured I could always undo this by booting from my old Snow Leopard DVD, or going into Single User mode, and copying back the extensions from my desktop. However, now when I want to undo my stupidity, all startup options seem to fail:
Boot to Recovery Disk -> FireWire error loop
Boot to Installation DVD -> Hang at Apple logo
Safe Mode -> panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff800064c99b): "Unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\".\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1699.32.7/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1 504
Also, once I've gone into Single User mode and run
/sbin/fsck -y and
/sbin/mount -uw /
..I don't see /Users. Thus I cannot find the moved extensions.
Any thoughts on ways to get my extensions back so I can proceed to troubleshoot the FireWire-related ones?

Unable to add/remove users in Mountain Lion Server (Options are greyed out)

For some reason, im unable to add/remove users in Mountain Lion server. The + and - are greyed out. It seems like something is wrong with the permissons because it looks like it cant write the the Ldav3 file (although that may be speculation). Does anyone have any advice for me? I URGENTLY need to add users.
Maybe theres a way to restore default permssions for the boot drive (if that in fact is the issue). Hopefully there is a way that I can fix this while leaving all users, groups, their permissions and shares intact.

Anything interesting and relevent in the server logs?
Anything interesting in the server alerts?
Since it's far and away the most common cause of problems with OS X Server and with distributed authentication (Open Directory is entirely based on network encryption and digital certificates and on responses from your local DNS server(s)), verify your local DNS configuration is working and requires no changes with the following Terminal.app (Applications > Utilities) harmless, diagnostic command:
sudo changeip -checkhostname
sudo requires an administrative password. You might get a one-time warning about the sudo, and that can safely be ignored. The command will display some details, and indicate whether the local configuration appears valid and no changes are required, or further diagnostics for (most) common errors that can arise.

HT201250 I recently replaced my 2009 Macbook Pro's hard drive. I had the Apple store upgrade the OS to Mountain Lion while it was being repaired. I want to restore all of my old files and data, if I restore from Time Machine, will it revert to the old O

I recently had to replace my 2009 Macbook Pro's hard drive. I had the apple store upgrade the OS to Mountain Lion while it was in being repaired. I want to restore all of my old data and files. If I perform a restore from Time Machine, with a date prior to having the hard drive replaced, will it revert back to the old OS?

No, it won't revert to the prior OS X but you you may have third party apps installed that were compatible with Lion that may not be compatible with Mountain Lion.
App Compatibility Table - RoaringApps - App compatibility and feature support for OS X & iOS
After you restore from TM, check HD > Incompatible Software

Unable to install Mountain Lion because HD is "being used for backups"?

I have been unable to install mountain lion because it is saying that my hard drive is being used for time machine backups. That makes no sense, because I use an external hard drive to backup my computer. I'm not sure why this is happening.

Do you, for some reason, have an item named "Backups.backupdb" on your hard drive? If so, you need to get rid of that in order to install.

Can't print from mini with mountain lion to To printer being shared on ppc with 10.5.8

Since installing mountain lion on my mini, I cannot print to my shared printer connected to my iMac running 10.5.8. Works fine from another iMac with 10.5.8.

OK, here's more info
The printer is a Canon MP160 that is connected via USB to 17" imac running OS 10.5.8. After installing Mountain Lion on the Mac Mini, I cannot print to that shared printer on my network. I can add the printer to the mini but when i try to print, i see the file in the print queue on the mini, and it processes and looks normal but there is no activity on the imac and nothing prints.
This worked perfectly with previous operating systems, ie snow leopard and then lion. I have done everything I could do to fix this including resetting the printing system on both computers.
I tested the shared printer from another imac that i have that is running 10.5.8 also and it works perfectly.

Since upgrading to mountain lion, my fonts in indesign are all messed up.

I run suitcase fusion font management, i also have all of my fonts in the fonts folder of indesign. they are not connecting any longer. seems to be getting worse.

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Help please -My HQ photos are being rendered in very poor quality in iMovie

Hi there
I have a problem I cannot solve in iMovie (HD 6.0.3).
I am making a movie/slideshow of photos using very high quality photos imported from Aperture. I'm finding them incredibly BAD quality when it comes to the rendering of finished product, the most obvious problem being the pixellation (seen as wavy lines) when the Ken Burns effect is used. It looks the worst on a plasma television, which it is being made to watch on.
I have burned it at the highest quality I can find, but there is still no improvement. Can anyone help please? I'm doing this as a gift for my parents, but don't want to send them something of inferior quality.
Thanks!
Carly

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in short, you'll never really get super-high quality from a standard definition TV and you'll only get good results on a high-def TV if you keep everything high def (720p or 1080p) throughout the entire workflow. and until Apple updates its software to handle Blue-Ray or HD-DVD authoring, it'll be very expensive to master those kinds of discs!
best of luck,
scott
PowerMac G5 2.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) MacBook Pro 2.0GHz

Mountain Lion missing font

Hi all,
I have been using a PDF e-book version that comes with one of my school textbooks to read it on my mac, make annotations and such. I have always used Preview; I have never installed Adobe Reader. Today however when I opened the PDF using Preview to continue my reading it started displaying characters incorrectly. I restarted my Mac and the problem persisted. I did an online search and there have been people with a similar problem, most recommended to see if the font had been disabled using font book and/or by going to the "Fonts Disabled" folder under Library. I did checked my fonts and everything seemed to be correct, I enabled the fonts and it didn't work. Other recommended to install Adobe Reader; I did and it didn't work. This is the message I am getting from Adobe Reader: "Cannot find or create the font 'BYGBIR+Helvetica-12-0'. Some characters may not display or print correctly." I don't know what else to do, most of the text is still legible but there is some random missing text and text in graphs' axis and descriptions is unreadable. I included a screenshot of what it looks like. I will greatly appreciate any advice.
Thank you,
Javier.

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After Mountain Lion, function buttons are not working.

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Xemacs fonts issue on RMBP running Mountain Lion

I am running Xemacs (not Aquamacs) on my RMBP Mountain Lion, and there are only a few fonts available, none that I like. Does anyone know how to add new fonts? The installed set are not very good, and do not contain the same as other OS.
I do not mean select a new font, I mean add new fonts to the library for Xemacs access in selection menu.
Thank you!

Seems Apple would rather have totally stoopid buyers with fat wallets, rather than discerning users that can reason with the technology. Well hidden in Apple Support Communities > Mac OS & System Software > Mac OS X Technologies, there is a minuscule Unix sub-sub-section, currently with 7,194 threads. Decidedly not the happiest or most abundant of the communities indeed.
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The files are on a volume that does not support Trash- Mountain Lion CC-Lr5

I'm trying to delete files in Lr5-CC and I'm running Mountain Lion My files are on an external portable HD. I'm getting a message that says: "The files are on a volume that does not support Trash." Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix it? Thank you

Hello,
This reply is months late, but hopefully it'll help you or someone else searching with this problem. I was having the same problem and found a way to get rid of it (permanently, it seems so far). The diagram below shows the steps I took in detail.
Note: This seems to especially be a problem if your photo files on the same disk as a Mac OS installation or bootable backup.
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In Mountain Lion, bold fonts are being rendered misaligned.

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