I know this is not a problem with Skim as such, but I thought that maybe the users here would have a good solution for my problem.
After installing Skim to read my PDF's from LyX (a latex-type editor, for those who don't know LyX), every now and then my fonts would be completely garbled. A user in this list eventually hinted to me that the problem was probably a bad font cache. Indeed it was, and after googling for solutions, I found ways to clean the bad font caches (manually, or even through a program called Font Finagler). But every time I clean the cache I need to restart the computer. It turns out, though, that these bad font cache problems are occurring daily, and it's extremely annoying to restart the computer every time it happens. So I now have two options: either revert back to Adobe (which doesn't seem to be affected by the bad font caches, as Skim and Apple's Preview do) or fix the cause of the problem. But I couldn't find anywhere a cause for the problem, only fix-ups. Anyone has any idea what could be actually causing this? To give some background: I daily open PDF files which are generated through either LyX or latex. I assume that there must be something in the fonts created by pdflatex or latex/dvips/ps2pdf that is non-standard and may create an issue with Apple's PDFkit or something, as presumably not all users have the same kind of problem. I currently have Leopard (Mac OS 10.5.1) installed in my machine. Thanks in advance for any help, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
