Since I upgraded my system from 10.6 Snow Leopard to 10.7 Lion, I have errors in the display of system fonts, and in the spacing of characters in documents.
An image of my old system under 10.6 Snow Leopard was restored from a Time Machine backup onto a new system running 10.7. I get unusual results:
Like this in the Spotlight window
And this in my battery display
This in my Safari bookmarks
not to mention errors opening documents – this is a .docx doc with Times New Roman, as seen in Pages '09
which looks like the following in TextEdit
Question
What should I be doing to remedy this, given that Lion comes on no Physical Media?
Should I re-install something from disc? Online?
Thanks!
Best Answer
First, you said you are on 10.7. Have you run the updaters to update your system to 10.7.3, with all of Apple's updates and patches?
Most likely you are dealing with duplicate fonts that are incompatible--old ones from your old system and newer versions of the fonts with the same names that came with 10.7.
Here are some things you can try:
If none of the above work, or if you learn from Font Book that the basic fonts that you need are corrupt, then you should re-install 10.7.3 on your existing system (this will not hurt your data) and run Software Update and apply all patches. But first you need to delete any duplicate fonts or corrupt fonts.
I believe you can download the Lion 10.7.3 installer from the Mac App Store onto your existing installation and run the re-installation procedure from there.