[OS X TeX] fonts in leopard

[Philipp Mathey]

I tried booting in Safe Disk mode which clears the font caches (?), I  
think (at least, under Tiger).
Didn't help.

To be clear, I don't have a problem with fonts whatsoever until I open  
a pdf file with TeXniscope.

I think the solution (at least for me) involves understanding what  
happens
as I restart, why applications like Preview, Skim etc display the  
fonts correctly afterwards  and why TeXniscope
does not. TeXniscope, for some reason, behaves differently.

On 3-Nov-07, at 4:54 PM, Philipp Mathey wrote:

> Hi,
>
> could someone answer the following questions ?
> 1) what are font caches ?
> 2) where precisely are they located in Leopard ?
> 3) what happens if one removes them ? (the entire folder)
> 4) what happens when one removes some or all items within the cache  
> folder but does not remove the folder itself ?
> 5) how should one 'empty' the font caches ?
> 6) when one logs out, does that affect the font caches  ?
>
> Thanks,
> Philipp
> On 2-Nov-07, at 11:00 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 2, 2007, at 7:35 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote:
>>
>>>> I would also delete your font caches
>>>
>>> Cha-ching!  It dawned on me right after I wrote my original msg  
>>> that an errant cache might be the source of the problem.  Not  
>>> being sure where in ~/Library/Caches the font caches were I just  
>>> clobbered (actually, moved) the entire directory (and created a  
>>> new empty Caches dir) and that did the trick.
>>
>> It's probably worth noting that font caches are no longer located  
>> in /Library/Caches in Leopard.  They appear to be created under / 
>> var/folders.
>>
>> -- 
>> adam
>>
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