topic Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout in Installation & update

AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:14:01 GMT

AC14 build = 3636

After the last update to Mac OS 10.6.7 I found out that the text for "Layout Number" using "NCS Drawing Title 2 14" changes size automatically.

If it is the first time you open AC the text is one size.
If you close AC and reopen it the size shrinks.

If you try to edit only that text in the title by selecting all the drawings using "Drawing Manager" then AC also changes the length parameter, position and alignment of all the titles. In this project I already have more 200 drawings which presents a problem when trying to fix the problem globally.

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:14:49 GMT

After Relaunch

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:16:12 GMT

and the result of the undo after trying to edit all the titles at the same time.

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:16:24 GMT

Seems to be an osx 10.6.7 problem affecting a lot of people, I have different but related problems after upgrade - workaround proposed by some is downgrade to 10.6.6

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:30:26 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion,

It might be Apple's fault but it is not affecting the size of the font in other areas of Archicad were I am using the same font. This is not the only Open Type Font I am using in that project.

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:27:44 GMT

ejrolon wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion,

It might be Apple's fault but it is not affecting the size of the font in other areas of Archicad were I am using the same font. This is not the only Open Type Font I am using in that project.

In our case, it is no printing from ArchiCAD or ArchiCAD generated pdfs - pdfs display correctly with Prview, Acrobat, Skim, but will not print. All our notes, text, titles etc are made with Open Type Fonts. I hope Apple fixes this soon.

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Greg Kmethy — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:24:42 GMT

Several sources confirm a bug in the 10.6.7 system update with Open Type Fonts. Here is a good review:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20048314-263.html

This seems to affect output too, meaning that PDFs saved from ArchiCAD may not open on Windows, and may not print.

Apparently the workaround is to either use non-open type fonts or re-installing the system and installing 10.6.6 update (omitting 10.6.7)

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Eduardo Rolon — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:31:20 GMT

Besides the windows problem I can confirm that it is also causing problems with other Preview in other Macs if they do not have that font installed.

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Greg Kmethy — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:06:00 GMT

I summed up what we currently know of this issue here:

http://archicadwiki.com/Bugs/Mac_OSX_10.6.7_Update_Causes_PDF_Font_Issues

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

drh64 — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:52:11 GMT

I'm not getting any of my fonts to print after updating to 10.6.7.

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Achille Pavlidis — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:18:09 GMT

seems everytime there is an OSX update AC has issues...
is this GS or Apple problem????

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Thomas Holm — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:33:26 GMT

This solution may work for some fonts, and save you from having to downgrade to Osx 10.6.6:

On Apple's support page,
a user called KJK555 has posted a link to a "FontFix10.6.7" package, containing
this link is to the support page: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2792142?start=300&tstart=90
scroll down to user KJK555's post with the link to KJ's download page.
THe package installs the 10.6.6 AppleTypeServices framework binaries.

This may or may not work for you.

If you install it, I suggest you update OSX with the downloadable Combo 10.6.7 updater as soon as Apple releases a fix for this issue. Otherwise, you may be stuck with mismatching system software.

I have attached a Pacifist screen dump which shows the package contents.

gkmethy wrote:
Several sources confirm a bug in the 10.6.7 system update with Open Type Fonts. Here is a good review:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20048314-263.html

This seems to affect output too, meaning that PDFs saved from ArchiCAD may not open on Windows, and may not print.

Apparently the workaround is to either use non-open type fonts or re-installing the system and installing 10.6.6 update (omitting 10.6.7)

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Erich — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:21:18 GMT

gkmethy wrote:
I summed up what we currently know of this issue here:

http://archicadwiki.com/Bugs/Mac_OSX_10.6.7_Update_Causes_PDF_Font_Issues

Does anyone know if this issue has been fixed yet, or are we still waiting?

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Thomas Holm — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:32:18 GMT

Erich wrote:
...Does anyone know if this issue has been fixed yet, or are we still waiting?

No news from Apple, if that's what you mean. But the fix that I linked to seems to work in the meantime. Just make sure you update your system with Apple's Combp update after Apple has released an official fix (I'd guess within a 10.6.8 update, since it seems it's not important enough for them to issue a specific in-between one).

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:24:35 GMT

Software Update has a patch for this today!

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4605

Re: AC14 OS 10.6.7 - Fonts Changing Size in Layout

Thomas Holm — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:23:48 GMT

Karl wrote:
Software Update has a patch for this today!
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4605

OK. According to available reports, this fix works. So, just to be safe:

1. Backup your current system (Time Machine, Super Duper)

2. Apply Apple's 10.6.7 Combo updater for your system.

3. Apply the Snow Leopard Font Update.

4. Run your Software Updater (Apple menu) to make sure you've got everything.

You may find Apple's updates on this page: http://support.apple.com/downloads/#macosx106