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From: Michael Green <merely.ridiculous@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: pdfs with boxes instead of letters
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:55:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F5C1BB96-0AF2-44AC-B50A-AF7BA60AA6B0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1256814003.16889.ntg-context@ntg.nl>

On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:56 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:56:05 +0100
> From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] pdfs with boxes instead of letters
> Message-ID:
> 	<6faad9f00910290356j522794fw1326911d8a70b1a8@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> The PDFs look OK here with both Preview and Skim. I would try to
> delete the font cache on your computer and restart it.
>

That seems to have solved it. I see letters again! My quality of life  
just went up measurably. Thank you very much!

For the record, I used the simple method Wolfgang pointed to:  
restarting in "Safe Mode" then restarting again in normal mode.

It's extremely easy with no software or mucking around in unusual  
directories.

Specifically, I followed these instructions:

http://www.ascendercorp.com/support/
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-29 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1.1256814003.16889.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2009-10-29 14:46 ` Luatex 0.44.0 announcement Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2009-10-29 16:11   ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-10-29 16:55 ` Michael Green [this message]
2009-10-29 22:37 ` pdfs with boxes instead of letters Michael Green
2009-10-30 18:02   ` Oliver Buerschaper
     [not found] <mailman.169.1256921249.22155.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2009-10-30 21:07 ` Michael Green
2009-10-30 22:14   ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-10-30 23:43     ` Hans Hagen
2009-10-30 21:41 ` Michael Green
2009-10-30 22:02   ` Mojca Miklavec
     [not found] <mailman.138.1256773107.22155.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2009-10-29  0:21 ` Michael Green
2009-10-29  0:29   ` luigi scarso
2009-10-29 10:56   ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-10-29 11:05     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-10-29 11:34     ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-10-28 23:38 Michael Green
2009-10-28 23:49 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-10-28 23:56 ` luigi scarso

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