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Strange Safari Font bug
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workerbee
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May 6, 2005, 12:09 PM
 
Not the first time that I've seen it -- but now that Safari 2 has made me switch from OmniWeb, the first time that I've seen in on my Powerbook: a strange font bug that causes Safari to not render certain tags correctly.

http://www.philby.net/ow-safari.gif (Warning: 160 kB GIF, 1518 Pixels large)

Leftmost window: Safari 2.0 (notice the gobbledygook in the italics)
Second Window: OmniWeb 5.1
Third window: Shiira 1.0
Fourth window: SunriseBrowser 0.741

All browsers were set to use the same font by default: Lucida Grande 11pt.

Some fonts Safari renders the text OK with: Arial, Arial Narrow, Baskerville, Courier, Courier New, Futura, Garamond 3, Georgia, Gill Sans, Helvetica Neue...

It renders rubbish with: AkzidenzGrotesk, American Typewriter, Arial Black, Arial rounded, Big Caslon, Chalkboard, Charcoal, DIN, Geeza Pro, Geneva, Geneva CY, Helvetica...

Is there any logic in this?
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zoe77
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May 10, 2005, 01:35 AM
 
i get the same issue in Safari 2 in Tiger too. happens with Netnewswire as well. Drives me crazy sometimes... hope someone comes up with a solution soon!
     
workerbee  (op)
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May 11, 2005, 01:11 PM
 
Originally Posted by zoe77
i get the same issue in Safari 2 in Tiger too. happens with Netnewswire as well. Drives me crazy sometimes... hope someone comes up with a solution soon!
The strange thing is that this bug comes and goes...
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May 11, 2005, 05:01 PM
 
Happened here also. I deleted the font caches and the problem went away.
     
   
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