Safari displays font wrong 1

[MyFavoriteLetterIsB]

I have this problem on certain sites like versiontracker.com, where Safari 1.0(v85.5) displays fonts as unreadable characters. I have reset Safari, changed text encoding to UTF, ran Cache Out X. None fixed the problem. Am i missing a font, or is this a stylesheet issue?

 

[tad1952]

Thank Heavens! I thought I was the only one having this problem. If I use Internet Explorer, the fonts on the same page look just fine. I managed to get around it in Safari by setting up a folder in Suitcase with Helvetica, Helvetica neue and Times in it. I just quit Safari, turn the folder off, relaunch Safari, and then everything is wonderful until one of my programs automatically opens one of the fonts. Due to the nature of the work I do, I need my Suitcase preference set to let it overide my system fonts & that's where the problem is created. Hopefully the new font management package in Panther will let me get rid of the hassle - if so, I will be upgrading earlier than I expected.

 

[MyFavoriteLetterIsB]

Are you able to determine if it is Times only, or helvetica only, or is it any of those at any time?

I wonder if there is a way to set a style sheet in safari to bypass the font, and eliminate this problem?

 

[signal49]

I'm having this problem with a lot of fonts, not in Safari, but in general. I use Suitcase X1 and Quark 6 all the time, and some of my normal fonts like StoneSans, Adobe Garamond, etc that I used everyday are suddenly all weird - since I upgraded Suitcase and/or Quark. I've tried removing them from Suitcase and reinstalling them, but it doesn't always work. It's also starting to affect fonts my customers supply for their jobs. It's getting to be a real problem. Like tad1952, I need Suitcase to be able to override system fonts... Any suggestions? It's going to come to a point where I won't be able to output somebody's job and then I'll really be in trouble.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

[tad1952]

I finally got it fixed - it was definitely my Adobe Helvetica.

Even though FontDoctor X said it was fine, if I turned it on in Suitcase (green bullet) and then opened Safari, it turned into weird characters. If I turned it off in Suitcase and then opened Safari, the page would look fine & if I looked in suitcase, I could see that Safari had actually launched Helvetica (yellow diamond). Definitely some kind of conflicting information.

So I started trying different combinations of Helvetica from each of our computers and our old backup files & finally got a package that FontDoctor said was ok, didn't conflict with the system fonts, and opened up correctly in Safari. What a pain!!!

I had even previously had FontDoctor build me a complete new library - ditched extra sizes, included opentype, bitmap and postscrip fonts, excluded multiple master and true type fonts - just to make sure I had a nice clean package. But now that I think of it, I told it to skip the system fonts, so maybe that's the problem - maybe the system fonts have to be included when you organize the fonts just to remove any possible conflicts. If I have time, I guess I'll try it again but so far so good.

 

[MyFavoriteLetterIsB]

Good job tad1952!

Thanks to your advice, I pulled Helvetica out of the User.library.font folder, left the system fonts and general library fonts alone, and now both Safari and Quark are happy.