Powerpoint 2008 Greek Fonts
Posted by Luke Cowell on October 22, 2008 at 02:02 PM
I had a problem with one of my clients powerpoint installation today. They had recently updated to Office 2008 and since then, powerpoint wouldn't display fonts correctly. In particular, arial (regular) wouldn't display correctly, no matter what size, but as soon as I changed it to the bold or italics version, it worked.
The fix was pretty surprising. It turns out that Powerpoint is somehow dependent on the 'symbol' font being present. The solution is so bizarre that I did a number of test to ensure this was the fix. Seems like <cough>bad programming<cough>.
So, if you're having problems with powerpoint 2008 and fonts. Make sure Symbol.dfont is enabled on your system.
MacBookMacBookProSU1.2.pkg - New Software Update for Macbook (Pro) 5.1
Posted by Luke Cowell on October 15, 2008 at 09:43 PM
143MB uncompressed. For those of you who are used to right clicking on a package and choosing 'show package contents' you may have notices that since leopard came around you can't do that any more. To convert the package back from a flatfile package to the previous version do this:
pkgutil —expand /Volumes/MacBook\,\ MacBook\ Pro\ Software\ Update\,\ 1.2/MacBookMacBookProSU1.2.pkg destination
Now you can root around, see the install scripts and view the files that were in the package.
Apple says this about the update: The update improves compatibility with external displays and includes a variety of software fixes. This update is recommended for all users of these systems.
One things I noticed in this update is that there's a lot of files relating to bluetooth being updated. This is interesting because apple only talked about graphics updates. So, if you're getting one of these new macbooks make sure the bluetooth is working correctly.
/usr/libexec/cups/backend/bluetooth
/usr/sbin/blued
/System/Library/Extensions/IOBluetoothFamily.kext
/System/Library/Extensions/IOBluetoothHIDDriver.kext
iCal has unexpectedly quit
Posted by Luke Cowell on October 15, 2008 at 12:57 PM
If you get the message the iCal has unexpectedly quit. Deleting the following from your home directory may help you:
Library/Sync Services
Application Support/Sync Services
Sometimes you'll have an application that will register itself as part of sync services, but it's busted, so it will crash iCal when the sync happens.