Incorrect font display in dashboard = font problems everywhere?

My G4 Silverdoor been hanging and freezing A LOT! Sometimes, several times in a day. When I run Disk Warrior, the most frequent error is incorrect font encoding. I run all of the repairs, and the problems reappear.
In Dashboard, several widgets have incorrect appearance for their bold titles (e.g., Systran tranlation & AccuWeather), so they look like hollow fill with white strokes. Re-installing the fonts does not remedy the problem. Re-installing the system does not remedy the problem. What is probaly wrong, and how can I fix it?

One other thing, perhaps a Finder problem of sorts. I was often freezing while trying to stream Flash content. When I ejected my ohter three internal drives, the freezes ceased. Does this indicate a problem with one of the drives (they test out okay), or some other aspect of my setup?

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Hello everyone,
I have had this font problem for weeks now and I can't seem to get it solved. There are a number of fonts that won't load properly in Illustrator, PS, and InDesign. They are loaded in the system, but refuse to show up in the list. I've installed them in the home directory/library/fonts. These are commercial opentype fonts and one homemade opentype font. Sometimes the font that I created will appear, other times it does not, but many other fonts refuse to show up in the font display lists of these 3 software packages.
I've cleared the font caches with FontNuke, everything looks like it should work properly, but it does not. Also, with Font Book, I've resolved any duplicate font problems. Does anybody know how to solve this problem? Is this a known CS4 bug?
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CB

Hi,
How do I check if the fonts have the correct creator and so on?
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validate font behave completely differently in Font Book? I discovered that
when this is investigated further with the validate font command, I found I
had a massive amount of duplicates that according to font book cause minor
errors. I thought that would have been sorted out with the resolve duplicate
command, instead I ended up check marking and manually removing the fonts
that had minor errors.
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InDesign's font folder, my font shows up. I also tried removing my font to
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10-04-06 5:21:09 PM Font Book[12940] ##### ERROR: The font system thinks
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file://localhost/Library/Fonts/Voluta%20Script%20Pro/VolutaScriptPro-Regular.otf
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http://db.tidbits.com/article/12078
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I'm having a problem with fonts in TextEdit. Some of the fonts in a particular font family are not available when I choose them either as a default font in the Preferences dialog, or as the active font in the Fonts panel. The unavailable fonts are listed, but when I select them nothing happens or the selection jumps to an entirely different font family.
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Hi all
Having some big Font problems using keynote since the last Snow Leopard update some month ago Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869) .
I tried to install the Latest Font Update package as well but nothing.....
The problem is the Myriad Pro Bold font (Apple use Myriad Pro almost everywhere).
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Have done some 50+ presentation in Keynote all with this Font.
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Yes I have...nothing happens. The font is myriad pro bold, all other myriads works. The thing is that I have used that in almost every slide in some 50 presentations, i.e hundreds or perhaps thousends of slides and in keynote you can not change them all et once. On my both iMacs works just fine but I cant install the uptades just in case, and who carry around an iMac for every presentation

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If you look at the screenshots you'll see the fonts are CID fonts with custom encoding. The fonts on Marks Computer probably have ANSI encoding (i.e. standard western character set) and the character maps will not match. As a result you will not get legible text but just squares or other things (diamonds, dots etc.)
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<quote>
The problem is that the PDF was made directly from InDesign, which converts the fonts to CID fonts (normally used for Asian fonts like Chinese, Japanese and Korean) and in doing so it created a character map (encoding) that is not compatible with our regular fonts which use the Western Character set (ANSI encoding). Which explains why replacing the embedded font with one on your system doesn't work.
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http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/329/329611.html
http://indesignsecrets.com/cid-identity-h-fonts-are-back.php
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/324995
<end quote>
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Do you know if these various issues are being worked on? I'm glad to have the temporary fix of rolling back to an earlier version, but I'd like to get back on the current update schedule at some point if and when these problems have been corrected.
Thank you again!

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