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As occasionally happens, an OS X update designed to eradicate bugs allowed an entirely new bug to sneak in. This is what happened with Mac OS X 10.6.7. The symptom is this: the display and printing of text can be “jumbled” to the point of being completely unreadable. The problem does not occur in Mac OS X 10.6.6.
Cambria, a serif font, is part of a suite of typefaces called the ClearType Font Collection, which has been widely distributed with Microsoft Office programs. These typefaces (Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, and Corbel) were designed specifically to perform well on computer monitors. These are the 40 best free web fonts available on Google Fonts, in my humble opinion.They are all open-source and 100% free for commercial use. This collection focuses on typeface families from reputable type designers and foundries that contain multiple weights and styles.
Here’s a screenshot of a PDF document opened in Adobe Reader, showing what you could confront:
I first became aware of this issue while surfing Apple’s Discussions boards (especially this thread). I mentioned it in the comments to last week’s column. In the interim, this bug has been covered on several other Websites, most notably TidBITS (which has a good discussion of the origin of the bug).
While a small minority of Mac users will trip over this bug and understandably be annoyed, most of us will go about our business blissfully unaware of the bug’s existence. Here’s why:
@John Fenderson @Peterc Funnily enough, what MS was required to do was to designate an employee to monitor their compliance with the court’s orders and then self-report on their performance. Of course they did moderate their shenanigans to avoid the possibility of any real pain but they always had friends in high places so not too much sleep was lost in the Gates household, I would think. Not too surprisingly, they deemed their own behavior exemplary and were finally relieved of that huge burden of oversight to become what they now are. So I’m like you: the less Microsoft around me, the better. From what Longhorn promised to this is no small disappointment. How much is office 2019 for mac.
- The problem only occurs if you are using OpenType PostScript fonts. As far as I can tell, Mac OS X does not install any such PostScript fonts. You are likely to have them, however, if you’ve installed certain third-party software, especially Adobe applications. You can find out exactly which of your fonts are OpenType PostScript by launching FontBook and entering OpenType PostScript in the Search box.
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- The problem primarily occurs with PDF files—especially PDF files you create in Mac OS X 10.6.7, such as via the “Save as PDF…” command in almost any application.
- The bug only crops up in certain applications. The TidBITS article noted that it happens only in “applications that rely on Mac OS X’s mechanism for rendering fonts; programs like InDesign that have their own rendering engines are immune.” Surprisingly, the problem does not occur in Mac OS X’s own Preview application. You will see it, however, in Adobe Reader.
- Although I could not duplicate this, some readers report that a document can display correctly yet show an “invalidfont error” when printing. This happened even though the original document was not a PDF, such as when printing from Word or Pages. I’m guessing here, but this may be a function of the specific printer.
In general, before you can be affected by this bug, you have to use one of a subset of fonts (OpenType PostScript), work with certain types of files (mainly PDFs), and use specific applications (such as Adobe Reader). That’s why I say that many users will never confront this symptom.
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Apple will likely fix this glitch in a future update. Until then, the work-arounds are to avoid at least one of the cited requirements for the bug. For example, you could switch to a different font (assuming your font choice is not critical) or use Preview instead of Adobe Reader.
Update: In last week’s column, I noted another new bug in Mac OS X 10.6.7: iTunes crashing on 13” MacBook Air laptops. Apple has now issued a fix: Mac OS X v10.6.7 Supplemental Update for 13” MacBook Air (Late 2010). In case you’re wondering, the update makes modifications to just two System extensions: AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext and AudioAUUC.kext.
Apologies for the Long Post:
So, here is what seems to be the case between Mail and Entourage:
The biggest show stopper for me over the years in adopting Apple's Mail as my email client has been the font size. Every so often I try Mail again and keep coming back to that. The problem for me is that when I compose email in Entourage, the fonts look just right to me when I set the proportional font preference to Trebuchet 10 pt. type. When I send the email that way, I get no complaints from others (who I suppose are mostly Microsoft users) so I adopted that typeface and size. In trying Mail, when I set the Font size to Trebuchet 10 pt. in preferences the font size rendered on my screen is very very tiny--totally unusable. But I figured that Mail would send HTML mail using that typeface and size, so I contemplated a tedious process of composing email in 14 pt. type and then selecting it and changing it to the 10 pt. size before sending. Otherwise it would arrive at another email client looking all big and blocky wouldn't it?. So I was put off Mail. I figured my 50+ year old eyes weren't good enough for Mail and so I have stuck to Entourage.
Recently, I decided to try MobileMe, mainly for the calendar and the photo gallery features. These were so good that I wondered if I might not take yet another look at Mail and see if I could do something about the font situation. One of the striking discoveries when I started searching for font size solutions was that there weren't a lot of people complaining. In fact, most of the complaints were about Entourage and Outlook, especially Outlook 2011. However, I did glean that there are subtle differences in the effects of application font preferences on the rendering and composing/sending of HTML email messages. There are also differences in the ways that Entourage 2008 and Apple Mail 4 control font sizes in sent email. Finally, the two applications natively render the same size of a given font at wildly different sizes on the screen. Once I was able to understand all of these variables I was able to overcome the problems I was having with Apple Mail.
Font Preferences:
First, the applications interpret your settings for proportional fonts in much the same way. When you set a typeface and size, you have set the default font and size for reading as well as composing HTML emails. If an HTML email arrives with no particular font or size specified by the sender, then it will be rendered using the font and size you set in Preferences. Again, the appearance of the font size on the screen is much smaller in Mail than it is in Entourage and this has led to plenty of confusion.
For HTML email sent from Entourage, the default proportional font size and typeface used for actual message composition is the same as the font settings in the application's Preferences. For HTML email, Entourage actually codes the size and typeface of the default proportional font into the email message. It also codes other fonts that may be expressly formatted and sized in the body of the email as well as the signature, assuming the signature is composed of live type.
For HTML email sent from Apple's Mail, the default proportional font size and typeface are what you see on the screen only. You can set this to any pleasing size and style. Unlike Entourage, these settings are not coded in the outgoing email and this is the crucial difference that I had missed. For an HTML message sent from Mail, the recipient's email client is left to decide which font to use per its own preferences. However, if you select some email text and format it expressly, then Mail codes that particular text with appropriate tags the same as Entourage.
To take a hyperbolic example, suppose you set Comic Sans 18 pt. as your default font in Apple Mail. Incoming HTML mail with no formatting applied would be viewed as Comic Sans 18 on your screen. When you compose an email, your typing would also be rendered in Comic Sans 18. Suppose you select some text in your email and formatted it as Verdana 12pt. That would be coded into the email and would also render on your screen as Verdana 12 pt. The same would apply to signature type, etc. However, unless the recipient had the same taste as you, the email text that you did not specifically format would render on that screen according to the preferences set in the recipient's email client. Assuming the recipient has good taste, Comic Sans would not appear. Again, the crucial difference is this: If you composed the same email in Entourage, then the recipient would see the default Comic Sans 18 along with the specific formatting you may have applied to the other text in the email message because Entourage codes the default settings as well.
One of the complaints about OUtlook 2011 for Mac is that the fonts render on the screen as much smaller than they do in Entourage. Sound familiar? I have not tried Outlook 2011. However, if it hard codes the default proportional font ala Entourage, then a user would have much the same problem as I thought I had with Mail vs. Entourage. Thankfully, I am not going there.
So, here is what seems to be the case between Mail and Entourage:
The biggest show stopper for me over the years in adopting Apple's Mail as my email client has been the font size. Every so often I try Mail again and keep coming back to that. The problem for me is that when I compose email in Entourage, the fonts look just right to me when I set the proportional font preference to Trebuchet 10 pt. type. When I send the email that way, I get no complaints from others (who I suppose are mostly Microsoft users) so I adopted that typeface and size. In trying Mail, when I set the Font size to Trebuchet 10 pt. in preferences the font size rendered on my screen is very very tiny--totally unusable. But I figured that Mail would send HTML mail using that typeface and size, so I contemplated a tedious process of composing email in 14 pt. type and then selecting it and changing it to the 10 pt. size before sending. Otherwise it would arrive at another email client looking all big and blocky wouldn't it?. So I was put off Mail. I figured my 50+ year old eyes weren't good enough for Mail and so I have stuck to Entourage.
Recently, I decided to try MobileMe, mainly for the calendar and the photo gallery features. These were so good that I wondered if I might not take yet another look at Mail and see if I could do something about the font situation. One of the striking discoveries when I started searching for font size solutions was that there weren't a lot of people complaining. In fact, most of the complaints were about Entourage and Outlook, especially Outlook 2011. However, I did glean that there are subtle differences in the effects of application font preferences on the rendering and composing/sending of HTML email messages. There are also differences in the ways that Entourage 2008 and Apple Mail 4 control font sizes in sent email. Finally, the two applications natively render the same size of a given font at wildly different sizes on the screen. Once I was able to understand all of these variables I was able to overcome the problems I was having with Apple Mail.
Font Preferences:
First, the applications interpret your settings for proportional fonts in much the same way. When you set a typeface and size, you have set the default font and size for reading as well as composing HTML emails. If an HTML email arrives with no particular font or size specified by the sender, then it will be rendered using the font and size you set in Preferences. Again, the appearance of the font size on the screen is much smaller in Mail than it is in Entourage and this has led to plenty of confusion.
For HTML email sent from Entourage, the default proportional font size and typeface used for actual message composition is the same as the font settings in the application's Preferences. For HTML email, Entourage actually codes the size and typeface of the default proportional font into the email message. It also codes other fonts that may be expressly formatted and sized in the body of the email as well as the signature, assuming the signature is composed of live type.
For HTML email sent from Apple's Mail, the default proportional font size and typeface are what you see on the screen only. You can set this to any pleasing size and style. Unlike Entourage, these settings are not coded in the outgoing email and this is the crucial difference that I had missed. For an HTML message sent from Mail, the recipient's email client is left to decide which font to use per its own preferences. However, if you select some email text and format it expressly, then Mail codes that particular text with appropriate tags the same as Entourage.
To take a hyperbolic example, suppose you set Comic Sans 18 pt. as your default font in Apple Mail. Incoming HTML mail with no formatting applied would be viewed as Comic Sans 18 on your screen. When you compose an email, your typing would also be rendered in Comic Sans 18. Suppose you select some text in your email and formatted it as Verdana 12pt. That would be coded into the email and would also render on your screen as Verdana 12 pt. The same would apply to signature type, etc. However, unless the recipient had the same taste as you, the email text that you did not specifically format would render on that screen according to the preferences set in the recipient's email client. Assuming the recipient has good taste, Comic Sans would not appear. Again, the crucial difference is this: If you composed the same email in Entourage, then the recipient would see the default Comic Sans 18 along with the specific formatting you may have applied to the other text in the email message because Entourage codes the default settings as well.
One of the complaints about OUtlook 2011 for Mac is that the fonts render on the screen as much smaller than they do in Entourage. Sound familiar? I have not tried Outlook 2011. However, if it hard codes the default proportional font ala Entourage, then a user would have much the same problem as I thought I had with Mail vs. Entourage. Thankfully, I am not going there.