Fix for "INTERNAL SELF-TEST ERROR: MacFont|c|818"
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- Subject: [mg108907] Fix for "INTERNAL SELF-TEST ERROR: MacFont|c|818"
- From: Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 07:27:17 -0400 (EDT)
Ever since I upgraded to OS X's Snow Leopard, I have been receiving these messages on Mathematica startup, > INTERNAL SELF-TEST ERROR: MacFont|c|558 > Click here to find out if this problem is known, and to help improve > Mathematica by reporting it to Wolfram Research. > > INTERNAL SELF-TEST ERROR: MacFont|c|818 > Click here to find out if this problem is known, and to help improve > Mathematica by reporting it to Wolfram Research. > > INTERNAL SELF-TEST ERROR: MacFont|c|818 > Click here to find out if this problem is known, and to help improve > Mathematica by reporting it to Wolfram Research. It turns out the fix (that worked for me) is quite straightforward, On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 08:30, <support at wolfram.com> wrote: [snip boilerplate Shift+Option+restart suggestion] > If you're still running into trouble after clearing the cache, it's > possible that the Mathematica fonts were corrupted. To resolve this, we can > reinstall the fonts by doing the following: > > Open a Finder Window to your /Applications directory, and Control+Click > 'Mathematica.app' then select "Show Package Contents." In the new window > that opens, navigate to 'SystemFiles > Fonts > TrueType' and double-click > 'MathematicaFonts.dfont' This will open a series of font installation > windows, which you'll want to click "install" on. Once you've installed > all of these fonts, please check the main FontBook window for any warning > messages (these should be noted by yellow ! marks next to fonts), which > might indicate that some system fonts are corrupt. As well as solving the problem, it's given me an appreciation for how many fonts Mathematica uses, ha. Hope this helps, Paul