Are you suffering from mysterious font problems using Microsoft Office, the Adobe Creative Suite, or other programs in Mac OS X Leopard? Help is at hand, with troubleshooting steps and real-world advice that help you solve problems fast. If you've experienced seemingly inexplicable trouble with characters displaying incorrectly, being unable to type a particular character, fonts missing from Font menus, Font Book crashing, or Character Palette misbehaving, turn to font expert Sharon Zardetto for help.
Read this ebook to find the answers to questions such as: • Where do fonts belong on my hard drive? • In what order do fonts load, and what happens if I have multiple copies? • How do I use Safe Mode to troubleshoot a font problem? • How do I use another user account to troubleshoot a font problem? • How do I move a font file that doesn't want to move? • Why does bold and italic text look double printed in Word? • Why does my font's name have brackets around it in the InDesign font list? • Why can't I install a PostScript Type 1 font? • Why doesn't the Input menu show up in my menu bar? • People keep telling me to "just delete the caches." What are they? Where are they? Why does deleting them solve a font problem?
Table of Contents • Read Me First • Introduction • Quick Start • Know What and Where Your Fonts Are • Take Preventive Measures and Plan Ahead • Learn Troubleshooting Procedures • Tackle General Font Problems • Fix Font Book Problems • Manage Input Menu Items • Solve Other Specific Problems • Appendix A: Supported Font Types • Appendix B: Leopard Font Tables • Appendix C: Users and Accounts • Appendix D: The World According to Glyphs • About This Book
Read Me First Welcome to Take Control of Font Problems in Leopard, version 1.0. This book is all about Mac OS X font problems: what they are, what causes them and, of course, how to fix them. It covers both general and very specific problems that you might encounter in using your Mac, its font-related utilities, and the most popular applications, including Safari, Microsoft Office, and Adobe's Creative Suite. This ebook was written by Sharon Zardetto Aker, edited by Tonya Engst, and published by TidBITS Publishing Inc.
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