Fonts in pdf documents screwed up when generated with latex (specifically, pdflatex) on mac osx

Question

My colleague suggests that texniscope is somehow to blame and that I should try purging it from my system. I really hope not to have to resort to that!

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Answer 1

TUG recently released updated binaries fixing the bug that triggers the font cache corruption : http://www.tug.org/mactex/fontcache/