Comments on: OS X 10.3.7 Update and Font Corruption http://blog.w3conversions.com/2004/12/os-x-10-3-7-update-and-font-corruption/ realizations on life, the web, and everything Mon, 16 Mar 2015 06:43:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Anonymous http://blog.w3conversions.com/2004/12/os-x-10-3-7-update-and-font-corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-3232 Anonymous Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:15:53 +0000 http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=333#comment-3232 Delete /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS <br /> <br />Restart. <br /> <br /> Delete /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS

Restart.

]]> By: Mark Douma http://blog.w3conversions.com/2004/12/os-x-10-3-7-update-and-font-corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-3231 Mark Douma Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:42:36 +0000 http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=333#comment-3231 Have you ever used Font Book before? I'm wondering if OS X is mistakenly regarding them as "disabled", even though they're in the /Library/Fonts/ folder. <br /> <br />The way Font Book deactivates fonts is that it still keeps the font in the /Library/Fonts/ folder, but it adds the file path of the font to a list of deactivated fonts. That list is stored in the form of a preference file: <br />/Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ATS.plist <br /> <br />(the ATS stands for Apple Type Services). <br /> <br />I'd open up Font Book and see if the font appears there in the list of fonts. If it does, make sure it's not disabled. Even if it is, in fact, enabled, try disabling it, waiting a sec, and then enabling it again. I had to do that with a font the other day. <br /> <br />OS X 10.3.5 had some font bugs, in the ATS.framework, which were apparently fixed in OS X 10.3.6. It seems that in fixing the 10.3.5 bugs, however, the behavior of the ATSServer has become somewhat unpredictable. Having a large number of fonts installed in the various /Fonts/ folders c Have you ever used Font Book before? I’m wondering if OS X is mistakenly regarding them as “disabled”, even though they’re in the /Library/Fonts/ folder.

The way Font Book deactivates fonts is that it still keeps the font in the /Library/Fonts/ folder, but it adds the file path of the font to a list of deactivated fonts. That list is stored in the form of a preference file:

/Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ATS.plist

(the ATS stands for Apple Type Services).

I’d open up Font Book and see if the font appears there in the list of fonts. If it does, make sure it’s not disabled. Even if it is, in fact, enabled, try disabling it, waiting a sec, and then enabling it again. I had to do that with a font the other day.

OS X 10.3.5 had some font bugs, in the ATS.framework, which were apparently fixed in OS X 10.3.6. It seems that in fixing the 10.3.5 bugs, however, the behavior of the ATSServer has become somewhat unpredictable. Having a large number of fonts installed in the various /Fonts/ folders c

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