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[Sarah Reichelt]

> I just installed Max OS X Tiger 10.4.3 and Revolution 2.6.1 on two
> different machines. One is a PowerBook and the other a power Mac, both with
> LCD displays.
>
> There seems to be a problem with the legibility of text in Revolution. The
> problem occurs throughout the program, including in the documentation. The
> problem occurs on both machines.
>
> It is worst in the fields in my stacks, which are mostly Times 14 point. It
> is not the system, since other programs are fine. I paste some text from a
> Revolution fld into MS Word and compare the two side by side. MS Word is
> fine and Revolution is barely legible.
>

I had a similar problem with a fresh install of Tiger on a new
computer. It had the fonts my app was using but they weren't
officially installed, so my app looked terrible. I wasn't running any
other apps, so I don't know if it was just Rev or whether it affected
all apps.

If you go to /Library/Fonts (that's the Library folder in root
directory of the hard disk, not the one in your user folder) you will
see a whole load of font files. Double-click on the Times or TImes New
Roman or whichever font you are using. You may see a sample of this
font appear in a small window with a message at the bottom saying
"(not installed)" and an Install button. Click "Install" then log out
& log in again. This may fix the problem.

If it persists, it may be a permissions problem in the font file
itself. You may need to set the permissions for the font to Read/Write
for all users.

HTH,
Sarah