Font Book

Have you added or removed any fonts recently? Usually odd garbled letters occur for fonts gone bad. Go to Font Book (or whatever you use for font management), and disable all user added fonts. If the symptom will go away, enable half of them and see if it's back, until you can find which one caused it (unless Font Book's font validator finds the broken one/s).

When I boot PowerBook G4 displays the grey screen and the apple logo and goes no further. Now read all the furom everywhere it say For most situations, a restart is sufficient. If the computer has stopped responding, try these steps, in order, until the computer responds: Force Quit (Option-Command-Escape) Restart (Control-Command-Power) Force Shut Down (press the power...

hat were used in your received attachment. Write them down, it should tell you what they were. Either, have your sender email the fonts to you or find them on a font website. ...

nearly so important as What. You first need to know what fonts are missing. You may already have the missing fonts on your machine. They may be disabled. Launch Font Book. Inspect the list of installed fonts to ensure that the missing fonts are really missing and not just disabled. ...

PLayed around in font book. Erased some duplicates, moved some fonts to the USERS and COMPUTER from the ALL FONTS. Erased some dups of Times Roman and checked the validate fonts etc. ...

Oh. By the way. In my font book. Arial bold is arial bold. ...

Thanks very much!! This is great. I feel as if the clouds have parted and maybe some sun is about to shine. One more thing. How do I undo the use of font book? ...

one more thing. When my wife installed the fonts, it was done via a CD she burned. Font book said several fonts were damaged, etc and did not install them...OK good. ...

BTW way we used Font Book to "manage" the fonts on the system....? ...

Wow! I just imported 6000 fonts and it's speedy as hell - the same can't be said for Font Book (or Suitcase). It did crash when I removed to of my fonts that got landed in ~/Library/Fonts and were active, but since then it's been behaving amazingly well. I'll post back how it's holding up in Leopard. I had repaired permissions recently, so I skipped that.