Gibberish text in Safari on Snow Leopard
After installing Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, I had problems with the Courier font in Scrivener (http://www.literatureandlatte.com/). It turns out that the problem is caused by a font conflict caused by having Microsoft Office 2004 installled. I needed to launch Font Book and delete the conflicting fonts.
I also was having problems in Safari 3.0.4 on some websites, most obviously on the maczot.com site, as shown below. It made the affected text illegible. The text changed if Safari was switched to run in 32-bit mode. The problem did not affect Firefox.
The illegible text
The illegible text in 32-bit mode
It turns out that this is also a font problem. At some time I had installed Helvetica Black and Helvetica Compressed. I turned off the two fonts and the problem was cured. Just to be sure, I chose to delete both fonts as well.
The problem fonts turned Off
Once removed the macZOT site offer header and price were legible.
Update: OS X 10.6.2 update caused the problem to return and I cannot fix it now. Boo.
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