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Missing fonts

Asked by: RfromP

OS: Windows XP Pro SP3
Web browser: Firefox & IE

If you take a look at the images you will see that the fonts on the sorceforge and wordpress sites are unreadable. It's not just on those sites but many sites I visit. I think it's a font problem because at one time I installed a trial version of FontAgent Pro and the wizard told me it was going to disable all of the fonts except the system fonts. That's when I started having this problem. I thought when I uninstalled FontAgent Pro that all would return to normal but it hasn't. I've never deleted any fonts so they should be in the font folder in the Control Panel. Can someone tell me if it is a font problem or something else and suggest a solution? Thanks.

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Answers

 

by: NaturaTekPosted on 2009-06-07 at 06:59:40ID: 24566490

Try this. Reinstall Fontagent. Go into preferences and uncheck 'manage system fonts' and any other 'manage fonts' of any find, apply and ok. Reboot and it will restore system fonts. From there you can uninstall it.  

You can also right click in the middle of the page in IE and look at the 'encoding', defaults are UTF-8, be sure to verify it's checked.

 

by: RfromPPosted on 2009-06-08 at 06:08:43ID: 24571465

Thanks for the reply. I reinstalled FontAgent and did like you suggested and checked the encoding and everything checks out but I'm still having the same problem. Any other ideas I can try? Thanks.

 

by: LornaWhitePosted on 2009-06-08 at 08:53:33ID: 24573414

Compare the fonts from a working system with a non-working system:

download windiff:
http://www.grigsoft.com/download-windiff.htm

Compare \\GOODCOMPUTER\C$\WINDOWS\Fonts to \\BADCOMPUTER\C$\WINDOWS\Fonts

Where GOODCOMPUTER is the computer name of the working machine and BADCOMPUTER is the name of the non-working machine.

 

by: NaturaTekPosted on 2009-06-08 at 20:33:17ID: 24578052

Try this

Right click on your desktop, go to properties, click the settings tab, then the advanced box on bottom right. On the general tab, drop down the DPI setting in the box to 'custom'. slide the ruler to 75percent hit ok, go back in and slide it to 100%, hit ok, apply ok, and restart.

solution 2, sounds dumb but give it a shot. Right click on your desktop , properties and go theme tab. Change the theme something else, hit apply and ok. Check the font on IE. then change theme back.

solution 3. In the code snippet below are all the fonts installed by default in a xp installation. Compare it to the list in your Windows font directory

To restore / add original fonts, have your XP CD ready. Click start , run, cmd  and hit enter.
Navigate to the i386 folder of your xp cd rom.  You'll be using the command 'expand -r' to copy all missing/corrupted ttf and fon to windows font folder.

examples
for .FON font files
expand -r  Sserife.fo_ C:\Windows\Fonts\Sserife.fon

for ".TTF" font files:
expand -r Arial.tt_ C:\Windows\Fonts\Arial.ttf

Maybe you can just do wildcards, like  expand -r *.tt_ c:\windows\fonts

ahronbd.ttf Aharoni Bold andlso.ttf Andalus angsa.ttf Angsana New angsab.ttf Angsana New Bold angsaz.ttf Angsana New Bold Italic angsai.ttf Angsana New Italic angsau.ttf AngsanaUPC angsaub.ttf AngsanaUPC Bold angsauz.ttf AngsanaUPC Bold Italic angsaui.ttf AngsanaUPC Italic artro.ttf Arabic Transparent artrbdo.ttf Arabic Transparent Bold<br />arial.ttf	Arial<br />ariblk.ttf	Arial Black<br />arialbd.ttf	Arial Bold<br />arialbi.ttf	Arial Bold Italic<br />ariali.ttf	Arial Italic<br />browa.ttf	Browallia New<br />browab.ttf	Browallia New Bold<br />browaz.ttf	Browallia New Bold Italic<br />browai.ttf	Browallia New Italic<br />browau.ttf	BrowalliaUPC<br />browaub.ttf	BrowalliaUPC Bold<br />browauz.ttf	BrowalliaUPC Bold Italic<br />browaui.ttf	BrowalliaUPC Italic<br />comic.ttf	Comic Sans MS<br />comicbd.ttf	Comic Sans MS Bold<br />cordia.ttf	Cordia New<br />cordiab.ttf	Cordia New Bold<br />cordiaz.ttf	Cordia New Bold Italic<br />cordiai.ttf	Cordia New Italic<br />cordiau.ttf	CordiaUPC<br />cordiaub.ttf	CordiaUPC Bold<br />cordiauz.ttf	CordiaUPC Bold Italic<br />cordiaui.ttf	CordiaUPC Italic<br />cour.ttf	Courier New<br />courbd.ttf	Courier New Bold<br />courbi.ttf	Courier New Bold Italic<br />couri.ttf	Courier New Italic<br />david.ttf	David<br />davidbd.ttf	David Bold<br />davidtr.ttf	David Transparent<br />upcdl.ttf	DilleniaUPC<br />upcdb.ttf	DilleniaUPC Bold<br />upcdbi.ttf	DilleniaUPC Bold Italic<br />upcdi.ttf	DilleniaUPC Italic<br />estre.ttf	Estrangelo Edessa<br />upcel.ttf	EucrosiaUPC<br />upceb.ttf	EucrosiaUPC Bold<br />upcebi.ttf	EucrosiaUPC Bold Italic<br />upcei.ttf	EucrosiaUPC Italic<br />mriamfx.ttf	Fixed Miriam Transparent<br />framd.ttf	Franklin Gothic Medium<br />framdit.ttf	Franklin Gothic Medium Italic<br />frank.ttf	FrankRuehl<br />upcfl.ttf	FreesiaUPC<br />upcfb.ttf	FreesiaUPC Bold<br />upcfbi.ttf	FreesiaUPC Bold Italic<br />upcfi.ttf	FreesiaUPC Italic<br />gautami.ttf	Gautami<br />georgia.ttf	Georgia<br />georgiab.ttf	Georgia Bold<br />georgiaz.ttf	Georgia Bold Italic<br />georgiai.ttf	Georgia Italic<br />impact.ttf	Impact<br />upcil.ttf	IrisUPC<br />upcib.ttf	IrisUPC Bold<br />upcibi.ttf	IrisUPC Bold Italic<br />upcii.ttf	IrisUPC Italic<br />upcjl.ttf	JasmineUPC<br />upcjb.ttf	JasmineUPC Bold<br />upcjbi.ttf	JasmineUPC Bold Italic<br />upcji.ttf	JasmineUPC Italic<br />upckl.ttf	KodchiangUPC<br />upckb.ttf	KodchiangUPC Bold<br />upckbi.ttf	KodchiangUPC Bold Italic<br />upcki.ttf	KodchiangUPC Italic<br />latha.ttf	Latha<br />lvnm.ttf	Levenim MT<br />lvnmbd.ttf	Levenim MT Bold<br />upcll.ttf	LilyUPC<br />upclb.ttf	LilyUPC Bold<br />upclbi.ttf	LilyUPC Bold Italic<br />upcli.ttf	LilyUPC Italic<br />lucon.ttf	Lucida Console<br />l_10646.ttf	Lucida Sans Unicode<br />mangal.ttf	Mangal<br />marlett.ttf	Marlett<br />micross.ttf	Microsoft Sans Serif<br />mriam.ttf	Miriam<br />mriamc.ttf	Miriam Fixed<br />mriamtr.ttf	Miriam Transparent<br />mvboli.ttf	MV Boli<br />nrkis.ttf	Narkisim<br />pala.ttf	Palatino Linotype<br />palab.ttf	Palatino Linotype Bold<br />palabi.ttf	Palatino Linotype Bold Italic<br />palai.ttf	Palatino Linotype Italic<br />raavi.ttf	Raavi<br />rod.ttf	Rod<br />rodtr.ttf	Rod Transparent<br />shruti.ttf	Shruti<br />simpo.ttf	Simplified Arabic<br />simpbdo.ttf	Simplified Arabic Bold<br />simpfxo.ttf	Simplified Arabic Fixed<br />sylfaen.ttf	Sylfaen<br />symbol.ttf	Symbol<br />tahoma.ttf	Tahoma<br />tahomabd.ttf	Tahoma Bold<br />times.ttf	Times New Roman<br />timesbd.ttf	Times New Roman Bold<br />timesbi.ttf	Times New Roman Bold Italic timesi.ttf	Times New Roman Italic trado.ttf	Traditional Arabic tradbdo.ttf	Traditional Arabic Bold trebuc.ttf	Trebuchet MS trebucbd.ttf	Trebuchet MS Bold trebucbi.ttf	Trebuchet MS Bold Italic trebucit.ttf	Trebuchet MS Italic tunga.ttf	Tunga verdana.ttf	Verdana verdanab.ttf	Verdana Bold verdanaz.ttf	Verdana Bold Italic verdanai.ttf	Verdana Italic webdings.ttf	Webdings wingding.ttf	Wingdings simhei.ttf	SimHei simfang.ttf	FangSong_GB2312 kaiu.ttf	DFKai-SB simkai.ttf	KaiTi_GB2312 msgothic.ttc	MS Gothic msmincho.ttc	MS Mincho gulim.ttc	Gulim mingliu.ttc	Mingliu simsun.ttc	Simsun batang.ttc	Batang

                                              
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by: RfromPPosted on 2009-06-28 at 17:18:02ID: 24733017

Nothing has worked but thank you all for your suggestions.

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