Yes, I had a similar problem last time I tried to install Opera. All my
pages were being rendered with some strange script font instead of Arial or
Verdana, it was totally unusable. I tried reassigning the fonts through the
settings but it made no difference, I couldn't track down any posts online
about other people that had the same problem.

I'm on Windows XP home version, all service packs installed. I also have the
Adobe Font Folio installed, so in excess of 1000 fonts or so.



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Ben Buchanan
Sent: Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WSG] Opera 9 and standards support

> Not related to a site, but to the application itself: admittedly, I have
> quite a large number of fonts installed on my WinXP box...but for some
> reason, Opera 9 (and even 8.5) somehow get confused and think
> Copperplate is actually Verdana, and a rather gothic looking blackletter
> font is Tahoma. In short, it chooses the completely wrong fonts (both
> for page display and UI itself). Is this a known issue?

Hmm, there was a font selection problem for machines with more than
1024 fonts installed; but that was supposed to have been fixed in the
Windows version (see http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/900/
right at the bottom).

You could try the 9.01 weekly build and see if that helps -
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

One note is that if you had a beta installed, I've found it's a good
idea to uninstall that beta before installing the final version (as
opposed to upgrading over the top).

cheers,

Ben

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