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How can font caches cause problems?
To work properly, Mac OS X must activate and cache fonts. When these OS caches work, everything is fine, but when they don’t, your documents become unusable. Before we tell you how to clear your Mac OS X font caches, we need to help you understand when you'll know if you're having font cache problems.

You are probably having font cache problems if you see any of the conditions listed below.

Jumbled text   
Text appears jumbled or as gibberish in a document you open.

Incorrect text reflow   
Text flows incorrectly from line to line in a document.

Printing problems   
Mysterious font substitutions, unintelligible printing errors, PostScript problems, PDF jobs that won’t distill or other strange printing behaviors

Font menus fail to update   
Font menus in your applications are not updating when you activate or deactivate fonts.

Inconsistent font problems   
Documents or specific fonts behave inconsistently from one use to another.
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