Missing fonts in Cocoa apps

[ericmurphy]

I recently did a clean install of Jaguar on my G4/500 SP, and noticed a weird font issue affecting Cocoa apps. It seems like certain fonts (I believe they're all PostScript fonts) aren't recognized. They're just given random names like "--font 8267--," and you can't select or use them (although if you paste text in from a Carbon app using one of these fonts, you can get them into a Cocoa app that way). The same fonts are recognized just fine in Carbon applications.

I originally thought it was a problem related to where the fonts were kept, e.g., /library/fonts/ as opposed to ~/username/library/fonts/, but that doesn't seem to be the deciding factor.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this, or have an idea what's wrong?

[Carabas]

The same problem appeared on my MacOS 10.1.4. But I noticed it in a Carbon app first: FileMaker would refuse printing layouts with some PS fonts, although it seemed to recognize them. Then I noticed that they weren't antialiased anymore, just as if the system ignored where the outline fonts were.
Then the Cocoa font menu stopped listing them, but --font82xx-- instead.

I also tried to move and replace fonts. No effect at all.


It is very, very irritating.

[genghiscohen]

I'm not sure this will help, but it can't hurt. Go to ~/Library/Caches, and delete all the files that start "com.apple.ATSServer..."