Safari displays wrong fonts

Recently Safari has been displaying "gobledegook" text/characters in place of the proper fonts on some web pages. One example is Apple's hot news page where this occurs in the body text. The headlines display correct here.
I've tried reinstalling system/font files to no avail. Some font info. may be corrupt but I am at a loss on how to find or fix.
Problems started after I installed Font Agent Pro but did not set it to manage system fonts. The only suggestion they have posted at their site is to delete all AdobeFntxx.lst files which I also tried.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Russ

Thanks both Eme and Bee for your help.
I resolved the issue finally with help from Insider software (maker of Font Agent Pro), with the following cure:
This usually happens if there are multiple formats of the same fonts activated, such as Helvetica TrueType and Helvetica Type 1. Click the All Fonts tab, then click the activation column head twice (this sorts all the activated fonts to the top) and scroll down to look for the same font name in multiple formats. Deactivate or delete one of the font formats. Also, check to see if you have Helvetica Fractions activated.
Do you use Font Book? If so, I would suggest that you disable it. We have detailed instructions on our Support/ FAQ page.
Let us know if you continue to have problems. Thank you.
Bernadette Ryan
Customer Support
Insider Software, Inc.
I did have many multiple copies of fonts in different formats activated at the same time that I was unaware of. I thought that this program was suposed to automatically remove duplicate fonts, but something went wrong there.
Anyway, all is well again.
Thanks everyone.
Russ

Similar Messages

Font in Mail & Safari display wrong

I just did an update and now fonts in safari & mail do not display right. I can barely read them. I saw post were it was helvetica fractions, but I do not have that font.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Ron

HI Ron,
Open your FontBook (Applications folder)
Select All Fonts on the left. Scroll down to Helvetica
From the Menu Bar click File/Validate Font.
Also if you have installed a third party font manager, that could be the problem.
From the Safari Menu click Safari/Preferences and select the Appearance tab.
Try a different Standard font and make sure where you see: Default encoding
It's set to: Western (ISO Latin 1)
Relaunch Safari.
Carolyn

Widget displays wrong fonts

Hi,
In the widgets only 'Calendar' and 'Unit converter' fonts are displayed differently. Earlier it was fine. I had installed and deleted few fonts from my font book (helvetica font is been re installed). Will this affect the fonts displayed within widgets?
Thanks.

Thanks both Eme and Bee for your help.
I resolved the issue finally with help from Insider software (maker of Font Agent Pro), with the following cure:
This usually happens if there are multiple formats of the same fonts activated, such as Helvetica TrueType and Helvetica Type 1. Click the All Fonts tab, then click the activation column head twice (this sorts all the activated fonts to the top) and scroll down to look for the same font name in multiple formats. Deactivate or delete one of the font formats. Also, check to see if you have Helvetica Fractions activated.
Do you use Font Book? If so, I would suggest that you disable it. We have detailed instructions on our Support/ FAQ page.
Let us know if you continue to have problems. Thank you.
Bernadette Ryan
Customer Support
Insider Software, Inc.
I did have many multiple copies of fonts in different formats activated at the same time that I was unaware of. I thought that this program was suposed to automatically remove duplicate fonts, but something went wrong there.
Anyway, all is well again.
Thanks everyone.
Russ

Safari uses wrong font

Hello, I installed a number of new fonts right now and Safari started using one of them as a "standard" one: it's almost everywhere.
Even now, typing this text, I see it
(have some problems loading a picture directly from my computer)
http://oi60.tinypic.com/4gkl0p.jpg
Not all texts are shown in this font though and the problem seems to be only about Safari.
Delete the font? Find font settings for Safari?

Back up all data before proceeding.
Launch the Font Book application and validate all fonts. You must select the fonts in order to validate them. See the built-in help and this support article for instructions. If Font Book finds any issues, resolve them.
Start up in safe mode to rebuild the font caches. Restart as usual and test.
Note: If FileVault is enabled in OS X 10.9 or earlier, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a software RAID, you can’t start in safe mode. In that case, ask for instructions.
If you still have problems, then from the Font Book menu bar, select
File ▹ Restore Standard Fonts...
You'll be prompted to confirm, and then to enter your administrator login password.
Also note that if you deactivate or remove any built-in fonts, for instance by using a third-party font manager, the system may become unstable.

Safari Display Gone Wrong

I have a new MacBook Pro 15 Retina, running Yosemite 10.10
Safari is version 8.0.3. I've some preference changes to compensate for my ("not so good') eyesight, and am still struggling with getting the menu bar text size, to match up with the Safari tool bar text size, and the html pages text size.
I've also turned off automatic updates two months ago. I want to get everything working properly, and understand the remaining problems before moving on.
About three days ago Safari started acting odd. It looks like some of the preferences have "reverted." Today I was able to get a definitive description of the symptom. I am hoping someone has a solution.
When viewing some webpages in Safari (usually older) the screen fields do not seem to line up properly, selection boxes too big compared to the text, text outside of margins, etc. I dismissed that after carefully checking Safari's display of newest websites like apple.com, hp.com, dell.com. All seem to display as I would expect. Until I stumbled across this screen this morning.
It is a simple illustration of what has been going on. Notice that the first line that contains the "Welcome" message? It seems to be set in the wrong font size resulting in over writing part of the remaining line.
Other, older websites, are almost impossible to read.
Any suggestions?

From the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Advanced
and uncheck the box marked
Never use font sizes smaller than...

Safari displays web pages in a wierd font, please help.

If there in anybody that can help me I would appreciate it. I find myself often gong to websites in safari where there are parts of the page or the entire page displaying in a weird greek looking font (snapshot inclosed below). I have set my default standard font to "Arial" and my default encoding is set to Western (Mac OS Roman), however that still doesn't solve the problem. Don't know what else to do, it's driving me nuts. pleasseeeeee help!
Thank you in advance!!!
http://www.krossoverstudios.com/safarifontproblem.gif
imac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

all my fonts reside in the main library (Hard
Disk / Library) and are available to all users. I
created a new user and the problem disappeared:
Safari could see the same pages it used to display
wrong, but now with everything on place and perfectly
readable... at least it shows the fonts
you have installed aren't the cause of the problem.
When things are fixed because you create a new user, it shows precisely that the problem resides in the main user account, either the fonts or the .plists or the caches.
Do you really have the same problem? Exactly like the screen shot the other poster provided? If not, send me a screenshot and I'll try to identify the problem font. For a problem like his, there can be no other cause than substitution by a rogue font from somewhere.

Acrobat X displaying the wrong font

I've been using Acrobat X for a few weeks. The other day it installed an update. Since then my documents aren't displaying the font used by the orginal Office 2010 documents.
If I create the PDF from Office 2010 by selecting "save as Adobe PDF" from Word or Excel file menu then Acrobat X renders it using Adobe Serif MM instead of Times New Roman. It seems like a close enough match.
If I create the PDF in Office using "save as" and choose the PDF file type then Acrobat X will substite Adobe Sans MM for Times New Roman,
If I send this to a person who is using Acrobat 9 it is being displayed as Times New Roman.
Does anyone know how I can make this work? We have a lot of pdf documents that were created using Office 2007 & 2010.

Hi Louis,
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that problem started with updating Acrobat 10.0.1 to 10.0.2 and it is there in both Save as "PDF" and Save as "Adobe PDF"
With Save as Adobe PDF, you see Adobe Serif MM font and
With Save as PDF, you see Adobe Sans MM font.
where the actual font is TimeNewRoman.
Am I correct?
Also when you say that "If I send this to a person who is using Acrobat 9" do you mean that you are sending above Acrobat 10.0.2 created PDF to a person who will view this in Acrobat 9? And there this PDF shows correct font. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I tried this for a sample file with Acrobat 10.0.2+Office 2010 Pro Plus+Win7 SP1 but couldn't able to reproduce. So based on above queries we will investigate it more. If possible please share your source file also (you can upload it on acrobat.com)
Thanks,
Vishal Gupta

I'm using mac with the newest operating system (snow leopard 10.6.7). since I've updated to Firefox 4 It doesn't display Hebrew fonts- I didn't have any problems with it before the upgrade and in safari I don't have this problem.

Hello, I'm using Mac with the newest operating system (snow leopard 10.6.7). since I've updated to Firefox 4 It doesn't display Hebrew fonts… I didn't have any problems with it before the upgrade and in safari I have no problem with it. please help me- I don't like to use safari a my browser...

elly903 wrote:
Before commenting - I CANNOT install Mavericks because it'll mess up the versions of Filemaker Pro and Quicken that I use regularly...
Quicken 2007 for Intel (Snow Leopard, Lion, Mt. Lion and Mavericks) for $15:
http://quicken.intuit.com/personal-finance-software/quicken-2007-osx-lion.jsp
It will input your Quicken PPC data file directly if it was Quicken 2005 through 2007. If older you need Quicken 2006 or 2007 PPC first to convert your data file; and this update must be done BEFORE you upgrade to Mavericks:
http://quicken.intuit.com/support/help/patching/quicken-2006-manual-updates--mac -/GEN82200.html
Filemaker Pro PPC (in this case 7) running in Snow Leopard Server installed into Parallels for use in Lion, Mt. Lion and Mavericks:
[click on image to enlarge]
Snow Leopard Server: 1.800.MYAPPLE (1.800.692.7753) - Apple Part Number: MC588Z/A (telephone orders only)
This solution allows you to run your Photoshop Elements in Mavericks concurrently with Filemaker Pro PPC. Mavericks is a free download.

Mx Components displaying wrong the embedded Font

Hi, I'm developing with Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and I have a problem that the mx components displaying wrong the embedded font which is embedded in a css-file. But spark components have no problems with displaying the embedded font.
thanks

See the embedded fonts post on my blog. The MX components default to a
different embedded font subsystem.
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe System, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

Fonts display wrong in Final Cut Pro

One of the other editors in the office put together this piece and now I am making some changes to it on my machine. We're using the font "Baskerville" a common font that comes on the computer, and it is showing up correctly in the Font Book, but it is not showing up correctly in Final Cut Pro.
There should be other options like regular, bold, semiBold etc, but there's only bold, italic, and bold italic.
The other strange part is that when I first opened it on my computer it displayed wrong, and I tried reinstalling the fonts, and then it worked fine. I tried reinstalling the font again but it didn't help. I also tried restarting and that didn't help either. I checked in the Library > Fonts folder as well as the fonts folder under my user and the fonts match.
Any suggestions as to what I could do?

As far as I remember, Final Cut has always had this issue....
I believe it has something to do with Final Cut only reading True Type (not Post script) fonts.
That's why I only use Text for simple things like legals. For all other text uses, I use Photoshop...

Wrong Fonts in Safari

Hi
How do you reset safari to make it display default fonts. For some reason when I started it today it started to use some weird fonts for some of the text on some websites (dont know what the fonts are).
I have tried the rested command from the Safari menu and it did not help.
Steve
Powerbook 1.5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Steve,
Although you can go to Safari>Preferences...>Appearance or Advanced to make font changes, I would recommend that you first check out Font Management in Mac OS X Tiger and Panther, by Kurt Lang.
;~)

Safari 5.1 cannot display Chinese fonts under osx lion.

Safari 5.1 cannot display Chinese fonts under osx lion.

Thanks a lot Barry and Carolyn also.
It is the good solution.
I was searching in Safari preference and it is in system preference .
François

Using iweb to create a webpage but wrong fonts are displayed

Hi,
I am trying to create a front page for the followoing site using iweb '09. Whenever i publish the site the font that appears is totally incorrect. However when I view the site on my imac, it looks as it should do.
I've seen numerous threads on this but the fixes haven't seem to work for me. The font I am trying to use is VAG Rounded.
Can anyone help?
<Link Edited By Host>

Your font is most likely not available on any computer :
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/adobe/vag-rounded/
To display custom fonts on webpages read this :
http://www.wyodor.net/Tutorials/Google/Google_Fonts.html
To use a free VAG rounded alternative, see this :
http://www.google.com/search?q=VAG+Rounded+free+alternative
Then perhaps this :
http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Standard/8766/VAG_Round.aspx
Then learn about embedded fonts :
http://www.google.com/search?q=embed+font
See how I do it here with iWeb and non-iWeb pages :
http://www.wyodor.net/_Demo/Fancy/Dynamic_Text.html
http://www.wyodor.net/mfi/global/Blank.html
http://www.wyodor.net/_Fonts/
http://www.wyodor.net/htmlegg/googlefonts.html

My Safari displays text in certains spots on a web page as mixed characters

My Safari displays text in certains spots on a web page as mixed characters. Is there a fix for this or does anyone have an idea what may be going on? I have looked at my fonts and everything seems to be working just fine. I can't quite figure out why this only happens to certain text and not others. But I can't read half of the pages on the web because of this. I can copy the mixed up text out of Safari and past it in another application and the copy is in perfect english then.
an example of what I am talking about is below:
(Kvg"Urgekhkeu"/Crmg"/"Crmg"Fgumvqru
Here is what it says when I copy the same characters out of Safari and paste them below:
(Item Specifics - Apple Desktops)
Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated

I work as a graphic designer so I keep a very clsoe eye on my font library. In fact I don't use font Book, I use Suitcase Fusion. But i went to font book and double checked and I don't have any duplicae fonts in there. Would you have any other ideas?
thanks for your help!

Asian fonts display in font book but show as Western fonts in apps!

Adobe apps still display Asian fonts as Western characters, even though I've changed language settings via the "international" control panel of System Preferences. Perhaps I have not done this correctly? I've restarted the machine after changes to Systems language prefs. Asian and other calligraphic fonts are all installed and display fine in Font Book. Is there a fix?

As my aim is to access character sets without the
need to change the language settings on my machine
That's exactly what Character Palette does.
think the ideal solution is to get a copy of
Fontographer and copy all the decorative fonts and
save them as standard fonts.
A total waste of time in my view.
True Futhark has several
characters that stand for phonetics not compatible
with plain roman alpha/qwerty keyboard use. I
understand the same is true of other fonts-there are
bound to be discrepancies.
Most of the characters in the world are not compatible with qwerty keyboard use. That's why in general people don't use that method to produce them, or try to jigger fonts so they might be able to.
Perhaps this is why so
many characters come up as "?" even when inserted
via the Finder's character palette?
This may be because your app is set to Latin-1 or some other limited encoding. It should be set to UTF-8. Try Character Palette with TextEdit and you will not get any ?'s.
Control+T does nothing in Adobe apps, as far as I can
see. Apple+T brings up the Type palette but there is
no "insert special character" option there.
I got that wrong. The combo for Apple apps is Option + Apple + T. I don't know if that works in Adobe (don't use them myself).
I did notice a wonderful
Tibetan font that must be on my machine somewhere,
though it does not show up in Font Book under "All
Fonts"!
These are part of the ST series of Chinese fonts. If you go to the Tibetan range in Character Palette you can see this and you can also input them in TextEdit or a UTF-8 doc. Or you can examine the contents of an ST font by putting Character Palette in glyph mode.
I guess ideally, for graphics use, one should get the
characters into a standard font file, as I suggest
above, and then type away merrily qwerty-style.
Some Asian scripts have thousands of characters. Using a qwerty keyboard to try to access a few of them from a recoded font is not something that anyone does as far as I know. They use a specialized Input Method or the Character Palette or a similar utility. Also unless you are truly transforming your output into graphics/photos, your input would be seen as qwerty on other machines.
suppose these decorative fonts are available on the
web somewhere, where those who sell them have gone to
the trouble of transcribing the characters in to an
'ordinary' font for you?
Never seen such things myself.
It seems a shame that Macs OSX can't grant you access
to all these decorative fonts (indeed, to all
installed fonts) in a more straight forward manner.
The Character Palette is the most straightforward manner possible for accessing such scripts, if you do not want to switch keyboard layouts. All computer system use a similar mechanism. It even has a Favorites section where you can store characters you want to use frequently so you can avoiding looking them up each time. If you have some specific problems using it, I'd be glad to help, here or by email (click on my name for the address).
Am I correct in these assumptions?
No, I think all of them are wrong myself.

Safari displays wrong fonts

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for