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Mavericks Forever

Wowfunhappy said:
Hi, see attached!

Disclaimer for posterity, I don't intend to keep this updated, so if I make changes to the script in the future the attached version will be out of date. The "right" way to get it would be to manually copy the relevant portion out of https://mavericksforever.com/get.sh
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Understood - and thank you for helping correction of a mistake of my own making.

I have good news: That worked !!
ie - found the USB stick and made it a bootable Mavericks install USB stick. (No Disk Utility required.)

Same computer: iMac 10,1
..only difference I am aware of:
Last time - running Snow Leopard
this time - running Mavericks.
..and different stick.

I expect its unlikely there'd be someone going from 10.6 to 10.9 again, so hopefully this problem wont re-occur.

Thank you lots Wow - for your time and patience !!
..and the extra learning I gained along the way.
 
fractalus said:
Installed the font fix, but it looks like it screwed up at least one font. For some reason a word with "t" followed by a letter in an italic font ends up looking like a "d" merged with an "f". Strangely, words ending with "t" aren't screwed up. The same page on Sequoia is perfectly fine.

I'll take a screenshot if you're interested. (...if not, I wont ;))
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Which font? Are you absolutely sure it wasn't like that on Mavericks without the patch?
 
Wowfunhappy said:
Which font? Are you absolutely sure it wasn't like that on Mavericks without the patch?
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I’d say I’m about 83.5% sure. I’ve been to that page before on Mavericks and I would have noticed. The thing is that I’m also using the updated browser so it could be that too.

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I haven’t seen any other font screwups, so I guess it doesn’t matter. If I find it screwed up anywhere else, I’ll let you know.
 
Thanks. What is the name of this font? I need to know so I can try to replicate the problem.
 
Linik Sans? Also at least on chrome I don't think it even uses coretext for font rendering, it uses harfbuzz. Not sure about firefox.
 
Yeah, sorry I can't replicate this. Also, the font used for italic text on noscript.net/faq looks nothing like your screenshot. I was kind of hoping we'd found some really weird font that actually uses fnt_adjust for something.
 
Wowfunhappy said:
Yeah, sorry I can't replicate this. Also, the font used for italic text on noscript.net/faq looks nothing like your screenshot. I was kind of hoping we'd found some really weird font that actually uses fnt_adjust for something.
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I figured out why you can't see it. You need to have javascript off. The script changes the font.
 
unable to reproduce it, even with javascript disabled. And it still shouldn't matter since to my knowledge firefox similar to chrome uses harfbuzz for web fonts.
 
Funny... I feel it happening. With Apple Silicon well established, nostalgia is starting to settle in for early Intel Macs... they are bordering on becoming "vintage"!

With this in mind, I have a 2011 iMac 27" running Mavericks and consistent with @Wowfunhappy's thinking, I have no plans to upgrade it - Mavericks was brilliant, the ideal compliment to an incredible chunk of hardware. Every now and then the stars align and Apple brings out a "perfect" product. The 2011 iMac 27 was such a product. Honestly, after that, it was all the way out to the M1 Max Mac Studio before they did it again.

I love my Power Macs, but eventually the time will come when even they won't be able to "cut it" anymore. My 2011 iMac will be waiting for me when that day arrives. Until then, Tiger/Leopard/Sorbet Leopard and Snow Leopard PPC are where I will continue to focus.
 
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