420996 - Incorrect text display

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 396315

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve Johnson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3

The page above -  and all others on this site, and some other pages on other sites too, display some of the page text incorrectly, e.g."Dance Club Background" on the page linked above renders as incomprehensible symbols.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.view the link above!  I can send screen grabs if required.
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Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

The text "Dance Club Background" on that page displays fine for me (Mac 10.4, Firefox 3.0b5pre).

Do you have a Type 1 Helvetica font installed?  If so, this is probably a dup of bug 396315.

Comment 2

[Steve Johnson]

Thanks for the reply, indeed I do have Helvetica Type 1 font installed.  Unchecking "allow pages to use their own fonts" has solved the issue for now.

So it seems to be the same issue as reported in the other thread, thanks for spotting this!  I did try searching for the problem before posting.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Well, it's hard to search for that bug when you don't know to search for "Type 1 Helvetica" ;)  I guess you could have taken the time to make a reduced testcase, discovered that it was triggered by the site specifying Helvetica, and searched for Helvetica.  But this ended up being faster ;)