10.6.7 update causes OpenType font issues

I've been a heavy user of an old (1987!) PS type 1 version of ITC Garamond Light (GaramLig). Since I upgraded to 10.6.7, it's not displaying properly. Used it for 24 years with no problem. The Italic works fine though.

I just found a similar issue too.

I have an 'early' MBP running 10.6.6 w/ Suitcase3, QXP8.5 and CS5.

Just bought a MacMini updated to 10.6.7. Same software. Same files. Same fonts.

I have one file which gets printed weekly from a template in QXP. It prints fine on the MBP on a Canon LBP3370 using the latest driver.

On the MacMini, the same file, on the same software yields an output error to the printer and requests the printer be switched to 'raster' mode in 'Quality' settings in order to print, which I understand yields diminished quality on more complex files.

I experimented with the file, removing elements and isolating them in another document to test if they print OK on the MacMini. 99% of all the page elements print just fine without switching to 'raster' mode. All except for... wait for it... a SINGLE weight of the Adobe Helvetica Neue LT Std OpenType font. The document has about seven separate weights of the same font in use, and it is only one of them that triggers this problem.

I've scanned the font completely for errors and corruption and it gets a clean bill of health. The exact same font, on the MBP, using the same software and the same printer, but used on 10.6.6 prints perfectly without having to switch to raster mode.

Bizarre.

I was dumbfounded! I could not print text from InDesign right to our large format printer; it would how ever print images. I can still export to and print from a PDF, but it is one more step and one more file. "what box did I check, or uncheck, or, or ... what the hell happened!" I'm hoping this is indeed the issue, if not, I'm back to square one - APPLE PLEASE FIX!!!

I discovered this when I tried to fill out and print my income tax forms in Preview. Printing was horribly mangled. Frustrating.

Thank you for this information I am working on Apple machines form the beginning and Apple became big by using Adobe software. So respect it Adobe has made over the last 20 years nearly free bug software. It is the constant OS update that are making the problems. That is s why i do not update for about 4 moths it fixes one problem and than it has an other.

Stop updating systems but make them stable in the first place
Owner of 5 Machines and some are still running fine under 10.5.8
Newer systems are not always better .
Stable systems are!

10.6.7 immediately broke our OTF fonts. Our office uses an OTF font for all of our documents as part of our branding. Immediately after installing the update, the fonts print incorrectly. Worse, if I print from Word 2011 or any other Office program directly to PDF, the output files are unreadable to any pdf viewer except Preview. If we try to open them in Adobe Acrobat, it causes Adobe to hang.

I found a workaround that works ~70% of the time, which requires printing to postscript and then converting with Acrobat Distiller. Not a good use of time, so I hope Apple fixes this.

After Upgrading to 10.6.7, I had problem with any text editor, Word, Page, Quark .. many old font ( FUTURA) and others not displaying the( dot ) at the end of a phrase and some other symbols, all was working fine with 10.6.6.

I used FontXchange (1 month trial) from FontGear Inc, to transform the problem font (Bitmap and PostScript Type 1) to Open Type (.otf)

IT NOWS WORK AGAIN, no problem with printing and pdf.

Upgraded to 10.6.7 yesterday, now my fonts have gone nuts in Flash - they're stretched and distorted. Look fine in other apps, but Flash is just unusable now, which is a bit awkward as I have about 6 animations to complete by the end of the week!
Tried a bunch of things but nothing seems to work, and to add to the mix Font Explorer has gone nuts!

Worst. Second-decimal update. Ever. PDFs generated in Word cause Acrobat Pro to hang. Glad I still have a machine on 10.6.6.

I'm happy to see all the Apple apologists blaming the victims for not having adequate backup/retreat options, but one of the things Apple users are sold on is that Apple stuff "just works." The expectation that minor "updates" will break simple OS functionality may be par for the course in Windows, we have higher expectations for Apple.

Do we really want to regard Apple as being no better than MS?

File/Print/Save as PDF from Word also creates PDF files that can't be read by Acrobat or on a PC.

It's busted, alright.