When Core Font's Go Bad.

Hello, fired up Indesign this morning to work with a document, quickly finded that the old document i was looking at didn't have the required font's. I have not been able to install FontAgent yet really, so i thought, well... let's give FontBook a try. Went into my Windows machine and pulled some Lucida .ttfs such as Grande, Sans osv osv. Installed them into OSX, everything was fine. Until next reboot. Then i saw that i replaced Mac OSX core fonts, which was Bad.
Now my whole system looks like this
http://www.neosoft.se/fontproblem.png
All fonts are misplaced, the menus look bad osv osv. Please help me out with this problem.

Excellent. Good News!!
Shalla --
Here's a wonderful article on Fonts in OSX that will really help you.
It's authored by our resident Font Expert, Kurt Lang.
It saved my life!
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html

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Last edited by ataraxia (2011-02-07 04:55:32)

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