Background: When using Scrivener 1.5.2 with Leopard 10.5.8 on a Mac Pro no problems. Upgraded to Snow Leopard and experienced problems.
Problems When Using an Existing Project: All data on the Index Card in the Inspector (title and summary) turns to hash. When the Index Cards are displayed in the Corkboard the data is hash but it is different hash from that in the Index Cards in the Inspector. When the Index Card in the Inspector is displayed and the “About Scrivener” window is activated the Index Card hash remains unchanged. When the Index Cards are displayed in the Corkboard, the Index Card hash changes from how it was displayed before the “About Scrivener” window was activated, but reverts to its prior state when “About Scrivener” is clicked off. However, the Outliner contains all of the proper data that the Index Cards should have contained and seems unaffected by the problems described in the Index Cards in Inspector and Corkboard.
Problems When Using a New Project: All of the above. Data entered into a chapter title are not reflected in the index card in the Inspector; either no data is shown or hash is shown. The hash changes randomly. Using the button at the upper right of the index card does not import text from the body of the chapter into the index card, only hash.
I attempted the suggested fix for large files. That had no effect on these problems.
In answer to your question: Before the fix, Courier works in Mail and Word, but not in Word Counter or Scrivener or Bean. After the fix, Courier works in all apps.
Regarding the thread: thread: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6561: Changing fonts for the Index Card titles did not work. But, using Font Book to delete duplicate fonts solved the problem. Here is what the Font Book window looked like indicating Courier (and other font) trouble:
On that idea I’d just mention (other folks may know this already, but I didn’t) two things: one) when deleting the duplicate Courier fonts the ones not to delete are the ones with the yellow triangle next to them. Since Courier is a system font, the yellow triangles indicate the fonts shouldn’t/can’t be deleted. For non-system fonts, those can be deleted, although it is probably better to pick the ones not so iconed. Two) a judicious comparison of fonts on which the delete duplicates operation was applied is necessary to avoid deleting fonts unnecessarily.
Thanks for the update. I’m glad you got this fixed. I wonder what’s causing this? A few users have had the same problem. It’s very unlikely to be related to Scrivener itself (as it doesn’t install or manipulate fonts in any way - it just uses them as other apps do), but more likely to be something that is caused by an OS install. Did you ever do anything with any of these fonts in the past? Install extra fonts or programs that might have?
I have one Mac which does not have Scrivener on it, yet the font problem exists. I have another Mac with Scrivener where the font problem does exist and yet another Mac with Scrivener where the font problem does not exist. Logic would say that Scrivener is not the problem.
I installed an additional font called Iceland-Alice3 Lao.ttf. In Leopard the installation was normal and not duplicated. In the Snow Leopard upgrade it showed up as duplicated. I deleted the font when cleaning out the fonts associated with the fix. When I reinstalled Alice3 in Show Leopard it showed up as a single installation and works normally. This suggests that a Snow Leopard upgrade in some way handles some fonts differently than other fonts; and that it is not the font that is the problem, but how Snow Leopard handles it during the upgrade.
There may be another lead to follow. My Mac with Scrivener where the problem didn’t exist had a clean installation of MS Word 2008. The Mac with Scrivener where the font problem existed originally had MS Word 2004, but that was upgraded to MS Word 2008. I know of another Mac like this (Scrivener + Word 2004 -> Word 2008) that also has the same font problem. The Mac without Scrivener that had a font problem had MS Word 2004 but not the 2008 upgrade. As best as I can tell, there are 16 fonts which are duplicated from the MS Word 2004 installation: Andale Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Arail Narrow, Arial Rounded MT Bold, Brush Script MT, Comic Sans, Courier, Georgia, Impact, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3. They were installed in either /Library/fonts/Microsoft or /Library/fonts. The puzzle is why only some of the MS Word 2004 fonts are duplicated. There is a site that discusses MS Word 2004 font problems: http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/office2004/topic4151.html that might be able to shed more light on this issue.
Thanks for this. I was having the problems with garbled Index cards caused by the Courier font. I also have a install of Microsoft Office 2004. Disabling the font with Font Book has solved the problem.
–Neil
