Thread-topic: Font cache corruption in Tiger clients
User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2418
We found that 10.4 and Office 2004 are less tolerant of minor font issues.
We used Font Agent (http://www.insidersoftware.com/) to the clean up the
fonts and stored a master set.
stevan
On 9/19/05 11:17 AM, "Mathieu F" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Ever since we upgraded our managed clients (and associated server) to Tiger
> (10.4.2) we've had a problem with the corruption of font caches.
> There are couple of symptoms:
> - The Office 2004 apps will only display a subset of the fonts we have
> installed in the font menu
> - Word 2004 will complain on launch that "Futura" is corrupted.
> - Selecting a font in any application will actually select a different font
> - Revealing a font in the Finder in FontBook will point to a different font
> (for example selecting Arial will reveal the Courier font file)
> - Wrong font in the menu bar
> - Squares instead on letters in the login window or in a document
>
> All these problems seem to get fixed by rebooting the client in safe boot
> and rebooting again normally.
> This has happened to about half of our users and a third of the client
> machines. It has happened to users that always use the same client machine
> and never log in elsewhere, and others who never seem to log in to the same
> machine twice.
>
> Needless to say we never had this problem with Panther.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?
>
> Thanks,
>
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