I'm happy to read your posting because I had the same problem. Luckily, it happens less frequently to me. In fact, only once on Leopard.
To me it happened when I used Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac. Office 2008 seems much better in this sense (well, I don't use it very often). I just thought (naive guess) that it's Office problem, but maybe you're right it may also be related to pdflatex since other PDF documents doesn't seem to be affected. I hope that someone gives a hint how to prevent (rather than fix) this problem. Best regards, mahn-soo 2008/4/30 Eric Cavalcanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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
