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Stubborn Safari Font Problem
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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 361190" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p><a href="http://img79.imageshack.us/my.php?image=typefacetesthp4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/4194/typefacetesthp4.th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Anyone know why my installation of Safari 2.0.4 won't display text properly? The preferences are set up as closely as I can match them to Firefox's and iCab's, with the default typefaces in all three set at Times and Courier.</p><p></p><p>The test page for the pic was created with Nvu. The test-page properties:</p><p></p><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"></p><p><html lang="en-gb"></p><p></p><p>It doesn't matter if I change the typeface defaults. Safari still won't display properly. The encoding was set at Western (ISO Latin 1) for the pic. Font Book passed all the typefaces.</p><p></p><p>This isn't new with Safari. It's never worked properly through it's software updates and three or four OS X complete system reinstalls (for other reasons) over the years. I never bothered with it because Mozilla's were my browsers of choice. But because of a few additions Safari can run now, I'd like to use it more.</p><p></p><p>I wonder whether other Safari users have the same problem but don't know it. I used these typefaces in the test because they make the problem obvious. It isn't likely anyone would come across Apple Chancery and Zapfino in the wild, but less flamboyant web-page typefaces that don't render properly might well go unnoticed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 361190, member: 3889"] [URL=http://img79.imageshack.us/my.php?image=typefacetesthp4.jpg][IMG]http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/4194/typefacetesthp4.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Anyone know why my installation of Safari 2.0.4 won't display text properly? The preferences are set up as closely as I can match them to Firefox's and iCab's, with the default typefaces in all three set at Times and Courier. The test page for the pic was created with Nvu. The test-page properties: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html lang="en-gb"> It doesn't matter if I change the typeface defaults. Safari still won't display properly. The encoding was set at Western (ISO Latin 1) for the pic. Font Book passed all the typefaces. This isn't new with Safari. It's never worked properly through it's software updates and three or four OS X complete system reinstalls (for other reasons) over the years. I never bothered with it because Mozilla's were my browsers of choice. But because of a few additions Safari can run now, I'd like to use it more. I wonder whether other Safari users have the same problem but don't know it. I used these typefaces in the test because they make the problem obvious. It isn't likely anyone would come across Apple Chancery and Zapfino in the wild, but less flamboyant web-page typefaces that don't render properly might well go unnoticed. [/QUOTE]
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