font issues - please help!!!

horix · Post by **horix** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:29 pm

i am trying to get a really simple look with all garamond 12pt for fonts... i edited the tutorial adium message style to use garamond, under the textonlygrays variant.. i have also tried to go to every place in the options i could find and change it to garamond, but when i do, my changes dont stick! the message style preview thing says it should all be garamond, but only the recieved messages are in garamond... all my input (both as i type, and once it is sent) is in helvetica. if i go to format->show fonts.. it has helvetica selected but if i change it to garamond and then close the window (just click the x... there is no OK button i can see) it just goes back to helvetica right away... please help.. i just want my garamond!

thanks, horix

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:38 am

~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/Formatting.plist

Either change it, or make a new one:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Default Background Color</key>
	<string>255,255,255</string>
	<key>Default Font</key>
	<string>Garamond,12</string>
	<key>Default Text Color</key>
	<string>0,0,0</string>
</dict>
</plist>

horix · Post by **horix** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:57 am

hmm... that didn't work... copied it directly and created the plist file as i didnt ahve one already... any other ideas?

horix

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:03 am

Um… Restart Adium?

horix · Post by **horix** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:04 am

i did multiple times, checked the file, and name multiple times.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:01 am

Hmmm… it always worked for me…

horix · Post by **horix** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:27 am

ok.. well now that ive done that.. when i change to garamond manually with format>show fonts.. it will stick in the message window im in, but i have to do it every window, every time... no matter if it's same screen name or something

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:31 am

So do all of that, and then go to the Message View pane of the preferences and change the font there.

horix · Post by **horix** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:33 am

the message view pane has been set to garamond from the beginning... so thats not it...

tbsmkdn · Post by **tbsmkdn** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:43 am

I'm also plagued by this problem, and zaudragon's fix doesn't seem to do anything but set the font to Lucida Grande no matter what I say I want my font to be (yes, I'm spelling it correctly). This is pretty frustrating.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:11 am

A space might be a problem (Times, 12 for example)

horix · Post by **horix** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:34 am

yeah, i had the lucida grande problem myself, and so i uninstalled .76 cleaned out the pref files and everything.. and then installed .77 and found every font thing i could and set it to garamond.. and thats where i am now.. putting that space in there doesn't do anything, btw.. thanks for continuing to try though!