Leopard and font problems

I have had my fonts default to courier when
printing, just like the others who have posted notices in recent
weeks. I wish I had never installed Leopard because I use FH
daily-- I don't understand Illustrator even though I have it. I
THINK in Freehand. I know I can change all my fonts to paths or
print form the PDF preview mode BUT I don't want to have to do
that. Anyway, I have another issue. I do a newsletter once a month
and the editor sends me the articles cut and pasted into eMails. I
have copied, cut and pasted the articles into FH beautifully up
until Leopard. Now I get all those crazy weird characters.
Apostrophes become "i"s, quotation marks become exclamation marks
and spaces get crosses in them. I am ready to scream! I don't want
to reinstall Panther but I will if I can't fix these issues.
Anybody got any answers? is calling Adobe Customer Support a waste
of time?

For the garbled font problem you might try removing font
cache files.
FontNuke will do the job. You can download the latest version
here.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21536
Judy Arndt

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Last edited by JinxterX (2012-01-21 16:48:16)

Ok I dug deeper
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