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Mac Pro will not shut down after Lion upgrade
I use Font Agent Pro as my font manager of choice. I just upgraded my 2007 Mac Pro from the latest OS X 10.6 to 10.7.5 lion.
I was having a problem with Postscript Type 1 fonts not being available to ...
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How to change fonts picked by Terminal.app to display languages other than English?
This is definitely and advanced topic and possibly needs a hack that I am willing to do.
I edit Arabic files quite a lot. Arabic characters displayed by Terminal.app are not playing nice at all. To ...
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Where does OS X store the list of disabled fonts?
I am using Font Book a lot and manage my fonts with it. Now, I want to back up all my settings.
I found my collections in ~/Library/Font Collections
But where does OS X store which fonts are ...
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How can I get the PostScript name of a TTF font installed in OS X?
I have a TTF font installed on my Mac that I have added to an X-Code development project. For the life of me, I can not get it to work with my application but I think it's because I'm using the wrong ...
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Where can I find information on the licence(s) that govern use of the fonts that come preinstalled on Mac OS X?
I've just read the licence for the Hoefler font (see their EULA). It says explicitly:
You may not create Embedded Documents, except as expressly provided in paragraphs 3.2 and 3.3:
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How do I make italics in my PDFs generated by Keynote look better?
I understand that Keynote embeds the fonts in the PDFs that it creates. I am using Arial in my template and have lots of italics. The italics looks great on a Mac but it looks horrible on a PC when ...
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Font display issue (Mac OS X)?
I used a font manager on Mac OS X, for additional fonts in my graphic design projects without installing them to the fonts folder (I think that's how it works) - using Font Book and Font Explorer X ...
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In Keynote, is there any way to assign shortcut keys to select specific fonts?
I'm writing a series of lectures where I use a different font to indicate code. Is there any way to assign new shortcut keys/key combinations to select the two fonts I want?
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Microsoft true type fonts on mac
How do I install the mainstream Microsoft Hebrew true-type fonts (David, Arial, Times New Roman Hebrew) in Mac? I would like to use these fonts both in MS-Office and Latex documents.
In the ...
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How can I change the default font for the notes field in the contacts app?
I have a 13 inch MacBook Air with Mountain Lion; the fonts in the contact app are too small, how can I change them? Even if they could not be changed, maybe just the notes field could be changed.
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Convert Suitecase fonts into a useable font for Lion?
Is there a way to convert Suitcase fonts so that we can import them to Font Books.
Is there any software out there that does that?
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Tool to install fonts on demand
I have too much fonts installed on my Mac, so photoshop (or indesign) can take a long time on operations that involve them (program startup, selecting them on the character palette etc)
I'm looking ...
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How to restore default Mountain Lion font distribution?
Deleting windows font which were copied from my bootcamp partition
I'd like to clean the installed font list because there might be a lot to deactivate by hand.
Is there a way to confirm which fonts ...
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Deleting windows font which were copied from my bootcamp partition
I recently wiped my os x partition to reinstall a fresh mountain lion. I already had windows xp installed as a bootcamp partition, and it seems os x copied windows font (tahoma, verdana, surely ...
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How to fix iTunes/Skype where fonts all show up as boxes after Mountain Lion upgrade?
When I login to iTunes or Skype the fonts all show up as boxes.
No fonts were removed on installed; none are disabled and all the normal ones show up. Doesn't happen on any web site; only seems to ...
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Safari 6: How to change default fonts?
This is probably a duplicate. I can't imagine I'm the first person to notice this.
It seems that Safari 6 has removed the appearance tab from the preferences, and with it, the ability to change the ...
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After Upgrade to Mountain Lion I get blurry fonts
Since the upgrade to Mountain Lion, I get blurry fonts system-wide. It doesn't matter where it is: I've seen them on the log-in screen, Safari, Mail, Xcode, and Skype. Every font is very blurry.
It ...
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How to unstyle incorrect (bold and italic) font display in Safari and Firefox?
I recently noticed that some sites/blogs I visit using either Safari or Firefox are showing fonts incorrectly. My site is included which is why I realised this was a problem. Instead of the correct ...
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System font display issues since upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion
Since I upgraded my system from 10.6 Snow Leopard to 10.7 Lion, I have errors in the display of system fonts, and in the spacing of characters in documents.
An image of my old system under 10.6 Snow ...
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Font gets replaced
I'm having the following problem! My fonts get replaced in multiple programs (E.g. twitter, itunes, tweetdeck) It all looks like the screenshot I added below. I don't know how this came all of a ...
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My fonts are sometimes displaying as Chinese/Japanese?
I am getting a problem with fonts on my machine sometimes showing as Chinese/Japanese characters (I'm not sure which).
This happens in many apps, although the ones where it is easily reproducable ...
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iOS and OSX Helvetica Neue Issues
Snow Leopard came with HelveticaNeue.dfont (Truetype).
iOS5 also came with HelveticaNeue.
Presumably, a Keynote document created on the Mac, using this font and shared by iCloud to an iPhone will ...
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Font Book finds duplicate fonts installed by Microsoft Office
Once you install Microsoft Office on a Mac, you get a bunch of new fonts. This is great, except many of them conflict with existing fonts that shipped with OS X.
Open Font Book.
Select all fonts in ...
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Problems with font rendering on a MacBook Pro using external 24" LCD
I have a 24" HP LP2475w at my home and 23" Apple Cinema Display at work. Today when I turned on my laptop at work, I noticed that all fonts look perfect (after having an issue with rendering for the ...
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How do I uninstall a font?
I double-clicked a downloaded font and it installed itself in /Users/myuser/Library/Fonts. But all other fonts are installed in /Library/Fonts. Why does it do that by default and how do I uninstall ...
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List of (activated) fonts with shell command in os x
Is here any shell command for getting the list of activated fonts? Mean something like:
some_font_util -activated -format 'file: name'
for getting a list of activated fonts in a form:
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Are there any ways to improve the font rendering in X11.app / XQuartz?
I use WingIDE for Python development and it runs under X Windows. The X11 font rendering is driving me crazy. Are there any tricks for getting better fonts in an X Server on MacOS / Lion? Sample image ...
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Safari v5.1.2 crashes frequently
I've noticed an enormous number of Safari crashes since switching to Mac OS X Lion, especially the new "reload all windows" crashes that leave Safari slow and unstable. Any tips for handling those ...
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Are all pictogram fonts broken in Lion?
Since I updated to Lion (Mac OS X 10.7.2) all pictogram fonts (Zapf Dingbats, Webdings et al.) seem to be broken.
The application I have tested are below.
TextEdit
Zapf Dingbats and Webdings do not ...
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How can I generate specific text from collection of fonts?
I have text (3 words) that I want to test by generating this text from a collection of fonts ? do you know any way to automate this?
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How do I use the STIX Font in Mac OS X 10.7
I just found out that Mac OS X 10.7 ships with STIX fonts (Scientific and Technical Information Exchange format). Can someone explain me how I can make use of these fonts or where there is a tutorial ...
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How to change the font smoothing setting from the command line?
I'm trying to avoid installing lots of software willy-nilly, because like so many Mac users I don't have antivirus software. Case in point, I really like TinkerTool but I'd rather change my system ...
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How to increase font size in Mac App Store?
How do you increase the font size in the Mac App Store? I have just gotten a new Apple Cinema Display and I'm getting used to the higher resolution. I like it and don't wish to lower it. I have just ...
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Mac core fonts on Linux [closed]
Does anyone know where I can download Mac core fonts (e.g. those that ship with Snow Leopard/ Lion) for use on a Linux system? I'm basically looking for either a Mac font-equivalent for the ...
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What is Mac OS X Lion's Finder Font?
What is the default font that Mac OS X Lion use in it's apps, more importantly the Finder window?
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How can I combine multiple font files into one family?
I have several font families that have different naming styles. The results is that instead of all those fonts showing up as one family, there's a separate family for each font variation (bold, black, ...
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Can you help me cure font outlines (as opposed to the font itself) showing up in webpages?
I am having some issues with fonts rendering improperly across browsers. Essentially i am just getting outlines, an example can be viewed her.
For example on this page. ...
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Are there fonts that include note characters?
On my Mac, there is a font that contains the "BEAMED EIGHT NOTES" Unicode character, but there are no fonts that contains the "MUSICAL SYMBOL PLUS NOTEHEAD," or the "MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER NOTE" ...
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Assign monospaced font family to selected text with keyboard shortcut in mac os x
I write a lot of technical emails, and like to use a monospaced font for the code bits. Highlight text, hit apple-T, choose my font from the list of favorites, then close the font window. Is there a ...
