Recently, Internet Explorer has stopped displaying 'Helvetica'. Any text in this font is nonsense. Any ideas anybody?
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Karl Gucklhorn said:
First thing I did with my Mac was to drag IE into the trash.
It's an awful browser, try Safari or Firefox instead. Safari is great, it comes with your Mac and kicks IE's arse for standards compliance and the built-in RSS reader is very handy.
Firefox is free and also very good.
But yeah, stop using IE, it's a cancer on the web and MS no longer supports the Mac version, Apple no longer include it with Macs and no Mac user really uses it anymore.
What do you mean by nonsense. Does it look like Sanskrit? How about a screenshot?Karl Gucklhorn said:
This happened to my girlfriend a while back, and was because she'd installed a font pack with an Indian font named something similar to Helvetica (or might even have been Helvetica something) and that "took over" for Helvetica Regular.
It can also be that one or more fonts have gone corrupt.
A couple of possible fixes: Run Font Book and mark all fonts and try File -> Validate Fonts and File -> Validate File and Edit -> Resolve Duplicates.
Also, have you've tried some of the obvious things, like looking in IE preferences for default fonts, seeing if it works in another user account (make one if you have to), deleting the IE pref file, repairing permissions, restarting, running periodicals, etc.
Helvetica problems
Recently, Internet Explorer has stopped displaying 'Helvetica'. Any text in this font is nonsense. Any ideas anybody?
Thankyou for your responses.
I wouldn't normally use IE, but I'm studying web design and need to check my web pages in various browsers. looking into this further, I've found that Firefox has the same problem. More worringly, I'm having the same Helvetica problems when I'm designing in Dreamweaver.
Recently, Internet Explorer has stopped displaying 'Helvetica'. Any text in this font is nonsense. Any ideas anybody?
Thankyou for your responses.
I wouldn't normally use IE, but I'm studying web design and need to check my web pages in various browsers. looking into this further, I've found that Firefox has the same problem. More worringly, I'm having the same Helvetica problems when I'm designing in Dreamweaver.
Karl Gucklhorn said:
Sounds like Helvetica the font has become corrupted on your machine. I think Apple has some support documents regarding fixing corrupted fonts. From your description this sounds like a system-wide problem rather than a browser-specific thing.