Fix Carrara 6.2 Snow Leopard

Today I purchased a copy of 3D Artist Magazine. I haven't bought a 3D magazine for some time, well, since my days of 3D animation at uni to be honest so I thought I would pick this up as it had some useful free software - including a free, full version of Carrara 6.2 Pro.

I have just installed said free software on my new MacBook running Snow Leopard (10.6.2), installation went ok and noting errored, however when I started the program for the first time I had no text whatsoever - nothing in the menus, GUI or intro screen... nothing!

A bit of googling flagged up a known bug with Snow Leopard regarding fonts - more specifically this post on the daz3d forums. It looks like a quick edit to the preferences file of Carrara 6 is needed in order to get it working on Snow Kitteh!

For those having this problem, here is the fix:

Go to

{your_home_folder_name}/Library/Preferences/DAZ 3D/Carrara 6

Open up 'preferences.txt' in your favorite text editor (TextEdit should do just fine)

Hit 'cmd+f' and search for 'Font' and you should find

FONT ""

Replace this with:

FONT "Times"

Restart Carrara and you should be good to go! Just out of interest I tried switching 'Times' for 'Helvetica' but sadly nothing happend, I still got the 'Times' font... ah well, can't win them all!

Hope this helps anyone else out there who has purchased this edition of 3D Artist, many thanks to the Daz3D forums for the help, I am not claiming this fix as my own.... just spreading the word!

Comments

many thanks

Submitted by vinylrake (not verified) on Sat, 04/17/2010 - 11:15.

Thanks for taking the time to explain the solution to this - I am happy I can get Carrara to work.

Fonts, Snow Leopard, and Carrara 6.2

Submitted by Doug Miller (not verified) on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 19:13.

Thank you very much for this tip; it solved my dilemma as well. Furthermore, I poked around in Carrara's preferences and discovered that you have an option there to choose your font for the program's interface––so no need to settle for Times.

Doug Miller
Grass Valley, CA

thank you. this tips help me!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 14:36.

thank you. this tips help me!

dont find FONT"" in preference

Submitted by ash (not verified) on Sat, 04/24/2010 - 20:56.

i didn't find FONT"" in the preference file

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