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August 23, 2007

troubleshooting

What the font? New iMacs may have type issues.

Posted Aug. 23, ’07, 8:26 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Troubleshooting

iMac Font problemsJealous of your buddy’s shiny new black and silver iMac? Well, if you’re looking for a little retribution, all you have to do is point out that maybe the text on the screen could look a little better. Maybe it’s offset, or left justified in places it shouldn’t be. Rub that in a few times, and pretty soon you’ll have your friend weeping into his aluminum Apple-less keyboard.

Then you can take pity on him and show him the fix for these font woes. Yes, it involves a trip to the Terminal, but that’s nothing to be scared of. Just fire it up and copy this command from Apple’s knowledge base article: sudo rm -r /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS. That’ll kill a pesky font cache. Once you restart, everything should be hunky dory in new iMac land.

Note: The management does not condone the behavior of the first paragraph, which may fall under the heading of “jackassery.” Perform such taunting at your own risk.


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