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Strange fonts, and some fonts not displaying at all

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chingaling
chingaling
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Hiya

I've recently been having problems with Firefox not displaying text correctly - instead it comes up with some jumbled weird characters.

Here are a few things I've already tried:

  • I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox (I am currently on v3.6.10)
  • I've tried and reinstalled all the default font families in my Control Panel > Fonts

Here are some screenshots of what I mean:

http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/4277/personalbuissnescardbus.png

In this one, there should be some text on the left hand side in the menu and also some useful text where the jumbled characters are near the bottom of the page.

external link

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/331/9gagchangesofthebatsymb.png

In this one, there should be some text in the top header, on the right hand side and also in the comments in the whitespace at the bottom

Its been like this for a while now, but its now starting to irritate as its making it difficult to read some pages.

Hugely appreciate any help on this.

Thanks

Hiya I've recently been having problems with Firefox not displaying text correctly - instead it comes up with some jumbled weird characters. Here are a few things I've already tried: * I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox (I am currently on v3.6.10) * I've tried and reinstalled all the default font families in my Control Panel > Fonts Here are some screenshots of what I mean: http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/4277/personalbuissnescardbus.png In this one, there should be some text on the left hand side in the menu and also some useful text where the jumbled characters are near the bottom of the page. [http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/331/9gagchangesofthebatsymb.png external link] http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/331/9gagchangesofthebatsymb.png In this one, there should be some text in the top header, on the right hand side and also in the comments in the whitespace at the bottom Its been like this for a while now, but its now starting to irritate as its making it difficult to read some pages. Hugely appreciate any help on this. Thanks

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Svetlana
Svetlana
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Does http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Website+colors+are+wrong help?

cor-el
cor-el
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This issue can be caused by an old bitmap version of the Helvetica or Geneva font or (bitmap) fonts that Firefox can't display in that size.
Firefox can't display some old bitmap fonts in a larger size and displays gibberish instead.
You can test that by zooming out (View > Zoom > Zoom Out, Ctrl -) to make the text smaller.

Uninstall (remove) all variants of that not working font to make Firefox use another font or see if you can find a True type version that doesn't show the problem.

See also /tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1...

chingaling
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Hoorahh!!!!

Thank you so much cor-el. It turns out it was the Helvetica fonts which were installed. I moved them from my fonts folder and it sorted it out. I will now trial and error to see if any of them will make it back in :)

Thanks!