The Case of the Missing Fonts/Text

As far as I can tell, from a quick overview of the forum posts, for all of those who were lucky enough to get Safari for Windows downloaded and installed to the point that it runs, the number one problem is rendering pages with all of the text, from the browser window showing menu text to webpages showing all of the text. Seems like a colossal faux pas on Apple's part. It's as if they didn't test it before releasing it. I'd love to know if anyone has found a way to fix this so that it works consistently, site to site, page to page.

I had the same problem, no text and no way to enter URL's. I looked in
c:\documents and settings\username\application data\applecomputer\safari - looking for fonts.plist which other members talked about. File was not there. I finally solved the problem on my Win XP PRO machine by using the following steps.
( you will need to turn off "hide hidden files and folders" under folder options)
1 - go to C:\windows\documents and settings (or whatever location on your computer)
2 - There should be several folders, 1 for each user
3 - choose the folder for your user name. (may be administrator)
4 - within the folder for your user name choose local settings folder (Probably hidden if you did make it visible)
5 - then choose application data folder
6 - then choose apple computer folder
7 - then choose safari folder
8 - locate fonts.plist and copy
9 - back out until you get back to your name folder (it took 4 clicks on my machine)
10 - now choose application data folder
11 - choose apple computer folder
12 - choose safari folder
13 - paste fonts.plist here
After following these steps Safari seemed to work OK. At least I could see the text and enter URL's.
If these directions are not clear email me at
kseal at nc dot rr dot com (replacing corect characters) and I will try to help.
Ken Seal
Windows PC Windows XP Pro

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