I created a script which sends an email through mail with a pdf attached. The text I wrote in the message box of the script is placed in mail as text on a black background, so one only sees a black box. The text is there as selecting the box highlights the text.

Does anybody know how to avoid this?

Don't upgrade to Safari 5, known bug.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3385

Thanks. Do you know a way to unistall or a work around. Do you know a way to convert to plain text, which they suggest at the the apple site, incorporated in the script?

Sorry, no. I saw the posts and didn't upgrade.

Perhaps this will help:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2453797&tstart=0

What we do is issue a shift-cmnd-T ... but what we need is to do is make an embedded applescript to do it, as Barbaras last linking suggest.

I was pretty confused when I got the call from the client experiencing this, I had not even been near to the coding the day it happened ... usually is the wonkyness due to my alterations, and I'll fix it immediately...

--sd

Apparently, today's release of Safari 5.0.1 fixes this problem.

I can confirm that Safari update 5.0.1 has fixed this issue for me.