Help with Font problem - MacPro - Creative Suite 5

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I have been a graphic/commercial designer for 15 years - on pc and on mac - and I have never seen this problem before. Currently I am on a Mac Pro that is about one year old.

My fonts on the entire adobe creative suite (CS5) are.. well look at the darn things. http://i.imgur.com/IBdEh.jpg

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Helvetica Neue - first example (All the sans serifs look like this)- looks like a freaking rollercoaster along the top line. And appears pixelated as if anti-aliasing isn't on (setting it to sharp, crisp, smooth or strong doesn't matter.) 18px size here - Optical and all settings at at 100%

2nd image is the same- just blown up 30% so you can see it up close.

3rd image is Helvetica Bold - same thing.. whoopsy there goes my lunch.

And last is Kepler - Regular (from the full pro Kepler set) not as 'rollercoastery' top line but look at the anti-anti-aliasing and the spacing - between the r and m in 'information' for example.
Again, changing the formatting or anti-alias settings makes no difference.

It just started doing this about 2 weeks ago. No changes were made to hardware/software or anything on my system. I use Fontcase App to turn fonts on and off.

I specialize in Typography and explore it as a major design tool. I am freaking out. Anyone who can help me figure out a fix will have my undying gratitude.
 

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I've seen this before, but it wasn't on my machine. It was one of the Machines that I was using at school. Thankfully all I had to do was move to a different computer.

I would try validating the fonts to see if they are corrupted or have any issues.
 
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All fonts validate. The machine you said was doing the same - was it a Mac?

Mine is Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro4,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8

And the Graphics Card I am using: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 (have been using this for the past year.)
 
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Is this in all applications in CS5?
 
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All fonts validate. The machine you said was doing the same - was it a Mac?

Mine is Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro4,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8

And the Graphics Card I am using: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 (have been using this for the past year.)

Check for any duplicated fonts. I remember an issue similar to this where a duplicated Ariel font was the cause of it.
 
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I see it a lot in InDesign for small type. It goes away as soon as I zoom in though. Never noticed it in any other program, except perhaps Acrobat.
 
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Duplicated fonts

Check for any duplicated fonts. I remember an issue similar to this where a duplicated Ariel font was the cause of it.

I think you may have hit the nail on the head. I went through my fonts and isolated duplicates and removed them. Now the problem seems to have gone away. Thanks! I still don't know how fonts got duplicated - that's a head scratcher. But things look better from here now.
You have my undying gratitude. That and a buckfifty will get you a cup of coffee. But you have it, regardless.
 
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I think you may have hit the nail on the head. I went through my fonts and isolated duplicates and removed them. Now the problem seems to have gone away. Thanks! I still don't know how fonts got duplicated - that's a head scratcher. But things look better from here now.
You have my undying gratitude. That and a buckfifty will get you a cup of coffee. But you have it, regardless.

I'm glad it seems to be sorted now, Benedictine. I seem to remember that the original person who had this problem said it had been duplicated via one of the Office programs installed on his machine via an update. :Cool:
 
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I'm glad it seems to be sorted now, Benedictine. I seem to remember that the original person who had this problem said it had been duplicated via one of the Office programs installed on his machine via an update. :Cool:

Ahah! That is probably exactly what happened.
 

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