05-10-2008, 02:46 PM
Remove any and all fonts from your ~/Library/Fonts folder and the /Library/Fonts folder.
Then safe-boot once. Hold down the shift key on startup and keep it held down until you see the swirly thing under the Apple logo at the gray startup screen. It will take a bit longer to start up than it usually does. It's doing some housecleaning, including cleaning out font caches. Restart after its finished safe-booting.
Then use ONLY Apple's Preview app to view your PDF's. If it still displays fonts incorrectly then you've got bad fonts embedded in the PDF.
As for Word... MS Office uses its own font caching scheme and it's probably the worst in the business. Go to ~/\Library\Preferences\Microsoft and find the Office font cache file. Trash it. The next time that you start an Office app, it should rebuild the cache and that problem should be fixed.
Then safe-boot once. Hold down the shift key on startup and keep it held down until you see the swirly thing under the Apple logo at the gray startup screen. It will take a bit longer to start up than it usually does. It's doing some housecleaning, including cleaning out font caches. Restart after its finished safe-booting.
Then use ONLY Apple's Preview app to view your PDF's. If it still displays fonts incorrectly then you've got bad fonts embedded in the PDF.
As for Word... MS Office uses its own font caching scheme and it's probably the worst in the business. Go to ~/\Library\Preferences\Microsoft and find the Office font cache file. Trash it. The next time that you start an Office app, it should rebuild the cache and that problem should be fixed.