Weird Bold-Font Substitution

Ever since I updated to 10.4.11 this morning, including the brand-new Safari 3.0.4, Safari has appeared to be font-substituting all bold Arial (or Helvetica?) fonts. The substitution almost looks like Arial Black. (Another poster had a similar problem, but not exactly the same.)
I've repaired permissions, trashed the Safari plist, and smashed the Mac OS X font cache, all to no avail. I don't have any Safari haxies.
What should I do?

I had the same problem since the update, bold fonts would sometimes show up as black, like on Google, all bold fonts would be Arial Black.
I managed to fix it by disabling Arial in Font Book (It turns out I had duplicates in the Arial font family) than restarting Safari and everything was back to normal.
So maybe try looking under All Fonts and open the Arial font and see if you have more than one of each type, try disabling any duplicates and any Arial Black duplicates.
Hope that helps because I know how annoying this problem is.

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When I make a PDF from a Word file using Acrobat 9 Standard, the Arial Bold font gets substituted regardless of the font embedding settings. With other PDF creation methods, this does not happen, but I need it to work with Acrobat for some of the features. It is really annoying that the one product I have that is not free does this, when there are other ways of creating PDFs for free that do not do this annoying font substitution. I have observed that this also happened to another user on another machine.
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(Using Windows 7. This also happened previously in Windows XP.)

I do not have a font that is actually called Arial MT on my computer. In some applications, it is referred to as such, for reasons I don't know. I do have Arial Unicode MS and Arial Rounded MT Bold, which I tried deleting from the Fonts directory, and I got excited there for a minute, but I actually got the same result again.
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%%[ Warning: Helvetica not found, using Font Substitution. Font cannot be embedded. ]%%
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Font substitution when Embedding fonts

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I added a new topic to the forum covering font substitution: http://forum.support.xerox.com/t5/FreeFlow-Core/Font-substitution-when-Embedding-fonts/td-p/177411

[Solved] Gnome monospace bold font

For some reason my monospace bold font in gnome seems to be messed-up (see image below). It's starting to get really annoying and I'm not sure how to fix it. I've read through most of the font wiki material but I still can't figure it out. Does anyone have any idea how I can change it?
Edit: Thumb-nailed the image
Last edited by emphire (2012-02-24 18:59:16)

emphire wrote:Do you know if there's a way to change what fonts are returned by fc-match?
This is complicated by my unfamiliarity with Gnome. Gnome has been known to have its own way with font configurations (I think due to pango). I could never find the following information stated plainly enough for me to understand on first reading. This is my attempt at clarity. Any corrections are welcome.
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30-metric-aliases.conf
30-urw-aliases.conf
40-nonlatin.conf
45-latin.conf
49-sansserif.conf
50-user.conf
51-local.conf
60-latin.conf
65-fonts-persian.conf
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The wiki contains much of this information.
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How can I prevent sites displaying in bold font in versions of FF later than 3.6?

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Thanks for replying. I'm using exactly the same profile as I did in 3.6, and reinstalling 3.6 does solve the problem. I'd rather use the latest version though.
I've just checked Tools > Options > Content > Advanced of the two machines side by side, and they're identical. The 32-bit one is fine, and the 64-bit one isn't.

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"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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You're welcome.
It is always a good idea to reload and bypass the cache after you have made changes and uploaded new files.
Reload web page(s) and bypass the cache.
* Press and hold Shift and left-click the Reload button.
* Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
* Press "Cmd + Shift + R" (MAC)

How can i take out the bold fonts from webpage?

Hello,
My website homepage is all in bold fonts and after trying everything i thought to solve the problem, i cant find a way to un-bold the font.
This the page i am referring http://silentdisco.de/
Hope you could help... I have this situation for some time and i really dont know what i could do to solve it.
Thanks so much in advance for your help.
xiko

Start by removing the inline styles from your HTML code. You've got quite a few of them.
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-size: 20px;"></span>
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Nancy O.

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I have designed a report using IReport tool with some text as BOLD, which generates report in PDF format. when i open the file with Adobe Reader IX it opens perfectly.
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Font substitution for Times New Roman? Why is Adobe doing this?

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Font substitution.

I'm on an iMac running 10.4.11 and have updated to Acrobat Reader Version 9.
I'm receiving PDFs from a colleague whose originating document is using Courier font.
When the PDF is opened on my system the document's Courier font has been substituted with font: Adobe Sans MM as detailed in the Properties file of the document. Adobe Sans MM does not appear to exist withing my system.
The originating system is a PC running Vista. The PDFs are created using: doPDF.
The font substitution does not appear within the originating system.
Any theories?
Terry

> Adobe Sans MM does not appear to exist withing my system.
Adobe Reader includes this font.
>
>The font substitution does not appear within the originating system.
System font substitutions aren't involved. Adobe Reader makes its own
font substitutions. Adobe Sans MM and Adobe Serif MM are special
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(but not necessarily the right look) when the font is neither embedded
nor available.
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Font substitution after upgrade from 46c to ERP2005

In 4.6C systems in SAPSCRIPT I can chose HELVE font in various sizes from a drop down list. In ERP2005 systems I can only choose a font family HELVE. I can then type size 9pt. In print preview everything is okay however, when printing to a printer this font goes to an outline style font due to some font substitution going on behind the scenes. Why is this different to 4.6C systems and can we do something about it?
Just tried HELVE 8pt and that works. I have no idea why 9pt doesn't. This is not a printer driver issue, we have tried this on various different printers with same end result. Any idea's??
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Chris Soden

Hi Chris,
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I had used Acrobat 8 at work for over three years with no problems converting any MS Office documents to PDF files. I've purchased Acrobat X Pro for my use at home and now every time I try to convert a Word file (either a doc or a docx), it changes the font on the first page to bold and leaves the second page normal, as the original font in the Word file. I'm not using an especially unusual font (tried it with both Californian and Antiqua, with the same results) and the font shows as embedded in the Acrobat properties, so I don't think that's the problem.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "checking the font for changes". In the Word file, only items that are supposed to be bold show as bold; in Adobe, the first page shows entirely as bold and the properties show that I have both regular, italic, and bold fonts - which is correct, because the original Word file has both regular, italic, and bold fonts in it - just not where they are supposed to be (at least on the first page). Second page is fine. And, as I mentioned, "converting it from Word 2007 using Save As PDF" - that *is* using the plug in. My point is that whether using the Word PDF plug in or converting directly using Acrobat X created the problem. I say "created" because this morning, it seems to be working fine. No rhyme. No reason. Not doing anything differently. I do know that I've seen a similar problem in a PDF letter I received from a colleague who was using Acrobat X (while I was still using 8). She reviewed the original Word file and, like mine, it was fine, it was just in converting that the problem arose. So I've decided that the solution involves rebooting one's 'droid. It seems that 21st century solutions are the same as they were a quarter of a century ago. Oh joy.
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