How to Fix Fonts Problem for Safari 3 Windows

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Apple launched Safari version 3 beta that not only run on OSX but now Windows too. Safari is a very light browser, and this should be a good news for Windows users that are Apple fanboy at heart. Download your own version of Safari 3 browsers and experience it today.

Solution to Safari 3 Windows: Fonts are not showing up

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Don’t get too disappointed if fonts are not showing up on the browser header, menus and bookmarks in Safari 3 Windows version. Apparently this is what most windows users have been experiencing since the release of the browser. It’s a bug Apple yet to fix but discussions were already hot inside the Apple Forum, here are some solutions drawn from Apple Forum that had helped others to fix their problem. Hopefully it’ll work for you too.

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Kellydc3 June 13th, 2007

I got Safari showing in Windows Vista the way it should by editing my Fonts.plist file (In Vista: C:Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Apple Computer\Safari\Fonts.plist) and copying the Lucida Grande.ttf & Lucida Grande Bold.ttf from the C:Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources folder to the C:Windows\Fonts folder.

My Windows Vista installation renames the .ttf fonts to Lucida Grande_0.ttf & Lucida Grande Bold_0.ttf so I reference that in the Fonts.plist file:

——————–
Lucida Grande
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Lucida Grande_0.ttf
Lucida Grande Bold
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Lucida Grande Bold_0.ttf
———————

I also made sure there were references to the Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Georgia, Trebuchet fonts in the Fonts.plist file (including bold, italic and bold-italic). Be sure to go into your Windows Fonts folder and check the names of the font files to make sure they match your Fonts.plist file.

For my XP box, I did the same steps but referenced the C:Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari\Fonts.plist location. XP kept the names as they appear in the C:Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources folder. So, I added these lines to my Fonts.plist file:

——————–
Lucida Grande
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Lucida Grande.ttf
Lucida Grande Bold
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Lucida Grande Bold.ttf
———————

Hope this helps.
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Hans Jensen June 15th, 2007

For non-US users, the bookmarks issue (crash if you touch any of the bookmark functions) seems to be fixed by copying the en.lproj folders in the Safari installation folder and subfolders to xx.lproj, where xx is your localisation code, e.g. da for Danish, pt for Portuguese, etc.

Hans
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Jim June 17th, 2007

My personal opinion is that Apple should have had some better testing before such a large scale release of a Windows platform program. I think someone jumped the gun a little early.

Read my open letter to Apple.
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shraddha April 15th, 2008

Nice help provided by Hans Jensen on the bookmarks issue because I was initially quite caught up in the problem!! I need more help on how to use different sizes and types of fonts on safari. A back is also required on the browser. Though personally I feel that safari interface in quite appealing but yet Apple developers need to work more the functional aspects of safari too!!

http://www.safaribrowserwindows.com/
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Ikebana May 12th, 2008

Some of the solutions worked well. But there are still little issues in safari like the start up time is more, the skin can be improved etc. Overall its a nice browser to have

http://www.safaribrowserwindows.com
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raji July 17th, 2009

sorry to say this no usefull codings in your site kindly update compatiblity issue fixing
codes

thanks
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