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Sveetly

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Mar 12, 2008
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I'm having an issue with the display of fonts. On the latest version of Leopard, I try to view sites using the Lucida Grande font (or a directory list of a server without an index page) it shows up as garble (see image: http://www.sveetly.com/garble.png)

This happens in both Firefox and Safari (Firefox 3.0b5 and Safari 4.0.) They each handle it a different way. Safari does what is seen in the picture, while Firefox uses a random grunge-style font from my library (not the first alphabetically or anything — a random font.)

The interesting thing is, when I copy the garbled text and paste it (regular paste, all original formatting) into TextEdit, it uses the correct font and formatting and shows up fine. So clearly the font isn't missing or anything. This started immediately after upgrading to 10.5.7, but only on my Mac Pro, not on my MacBook.

Any ideas as to why this might happen and how to fix it?

EDIT: Update - I just noticed the same problem in Microsoft Office updater. Seems to be this way in many areas throughout the system. Copy and paste still allows you to read the sentence without problem.
 
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