Shows the problem. My font's set to Lucida Grande 11pt in the preferences but shows up as Helvetica in the message. Is displayed as Lucida Grande in the text entry field but automatically changes when I hit enter.
If I change the font from Helvetica by right clicking the text entry field - show fonts then it will send one message as Lucida Grande and then automatically change back to Helvetica.
Shows the problem. My font's set to Lucida Grande 11pt in the preferences but shows up as Helvetica in the message. Is displayed as Lucida Grande in the text entry field but automatically changes when I hit enter.
If I change the font from Helvetica by right clicking the text entry field - show fonts then it will send one message as Lucida Grande and then automatically change back to Helvetica.
Because I was interested I looked into the same PLIST file that affected my white background problem. I found that it also had a Helvetica default in there. If you take it out it should fix your problem:
1) open /Applications/Adium.app/Contents/Resources/FormattingDefaults.plist
2) Delete Default Font
If you have a Formatting.plist in your Application Support directory:
4) Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/Formatting.plist
5) delete Default Font
It takes some experimenting but it should work. Good luck.
Doesn't work for me, sadly. Deleting "default font" from the plist just results in me being unable to send messages - double clicking on contact names in the contact list does nothing and nor does "FIle - new chat".
I understand some people can't IM anymore using the "fix", my bad. As suggested before, you could just change the default font to the font of your choice. Hopefully there will be official fixes in the updated Adium releases.
Sorry to bump a dead thread but this bug still isn't fixed in 1.4b12. I just upgraded from b9 to b12 and it changed the DefaultFont value in FormattingDefaults.plist back to "Helvetica, 12". Still shows up in the "messages" prefpane for Adium as Lucida Grande, 11 but changing this value has no effect on what font is actually displayed in messages. Only fix is to manually edit the .plist to set the right default font.
It seams that Snow Leopard has issues with preference files not updating. It might not be an Adium bug per say as things like selected audio output won't stay set unless you delete the preference file left over from Leopard. I cannot reproduce your bug - but I have a fresh install of Adium without the pre-existing Leopard preference file. When in doubt, delete the preference file.
This is a clean install of Snow Leopard so that doesn't apply. What's more, this .plist file is inside the Adium.app bundle so it's being replaced with each Adium update (given the old .app is trashed to make way for the new one).
I have the same problem (1.4b12), also trying to set it to Lucinda 11, but can't. I tried editing the .plist file in terminal, but then I couldn't open chat windows when clicking on contacts, so I replaced the file back. This problem was also in b10.
The messaging preference pane doesn't affect the outgoing font. That's set from Format > Show Fonts and then clicking "Set this as my default font" (the button on the bottom).
On Slow Leopard, Adium was having a difficult time in adding font tags; SL was causing it to happen all the time, and then outgoing messages always had their font information displayed, regardless of "show fonts" being checked or not. I think this is the confusion. If you want to "fix" it right now, set a different default font (see above).
I have fixed this (more or less) for the next 1.4 beta. The font tags are now always added, like SL was tricking Adium into doing, but the sent fonts are only displayed if "show fonts" is selected. It should be more uniform now.
