Macbook default font replaced by symbols

I dropped my 5 year old macbook pro recently, and immediately afterwards, all the default fonts on the menus, titles, etc. were changed to a 'block A' symbol. Whenever I right click, because my macbook wants to display the symbols instead of actual words, a blank menu shows up. However, the fonts are working regularly in whatever app I open up.
It's very odd, and I've already tried various fixes but none of them worked or followed through:
Basic restart
Resetting PRAM
Hardware Diagnostic (doesn't finish, just freezes halfway)
Safe Mode/clearing caches

Thanks, Bee! But I just figured out that this problem is caused by disabling Georgia.
There are several fonts that most likely I will never use (e.g. fonts for other languages, symbols), so I went ahead and disabled them in FontBook when I got my computer. It just occurred to me, after starting this thread, to go back to FontBook to enable all fonts and go in batches to try to pinpoint the font causing the problem. And so I found it! I figured that since I'm using FontExplorer Pro now I can manage them directly from it and not thru FontBook anymore.
It was a painful task but it was worth doing it, knowing that many people can learn from my mistake.
Thanks for the hand once again!

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I realize this is an old post, but maybe it will still help.
Was looking for the same functionality in Photoshop as in InDesign, where upon selecting "Replace all Missing Fonts", there would be a dialog box allowing me to choose the fonts to replace to. Instead, it just arbitrarily selects "Myriad Pro", regardless.
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Steve

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to do this for pages:
Open a New document
Select some text in the document
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Click on the red arrow next to “Body” and & select “Redefine Style from Selection”
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Anybody else have this happen? It's happened to me more than once, so I don't think it's a fluke. The first time around I never noticed it until it was way too late to use UNDO. Disconcerting to say the least. It takes out all the words in that font and inserts a space.
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Vicki

backup entire site
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It sounds like your computer may still be infected with some sort of a virus / Malware.
I suggest the following resources:
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Download and Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, run a full Scan. [http://www.malwarebytes.org/ http://www.malwarebytes.org/]
Download and Run TDSSKiller [http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208283363 http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208283363]
Download and Install Microsoft Security Essentials [http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials] (not an official endorsement, but I personally recommend MSE as an awesome permanent anti-virus)
Double check for all Windows Updates.
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I have tried quitting indesign and reopening it and its still the old default font of [Times (TT)] - which is also not an available font on my machine.
I have also changed my basic paragraph style to helvetica from times, and it still doesnt change the default font when i open a new document.
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i tried make it by windows 7 way
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000001
2.
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"Segoe UI (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Bold (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Semibold (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Light (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Symbol (TrueType)"=""
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]
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"Segoe UI Bold (TrueType)"="segoeuib.ttf"
"Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"="segoeuii.ttf"
"Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"="segoeuiz.ttf"
"Segoe UI Semibold (TrueType)"="seguisb.ttf"
"Segoe UI Light (TrueType)"="segoeuil.ttf"
"Segoe UI Symbol (TrueType)"="seguisym.ttf"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]
"Segoe UI"=-
5. reboot
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How to cahnge all fon'ts in windows 8.1 to Tahoma 8 for example?

This is supposed to be a better program than Win 8.
Did someone from Microsoft Marketing tell you that? Maybe a fanboy? :)
In all seriousness it's not better in any obvious way than Win 8, nor is it really any better than Win 7. It can be tweaked to be just about as good. And to be fair, it's stable.
I mean yes, we all expected Win 8.1 to be better than its predecessors
- software releases are supposed to give you some value, some good reason to upgrade - but that kind of goes away when the software maker feels they have a captive audience as Microsoft does, and especially when they still have plenty of businesses
buying Win 7, which pays their bills.
But like it or not, removed choices or not, apparently Windows 8 is here to stay. Joshua up above says "You fail", but have they really? Once you're patching it up to make it usable they've already got your license fee, and your
alternatives to running Windows are what, exactly?
-Noel
Detailed how-to in my eBooks:
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I am unhappy with the recent upgrade to Thunderbird 31.3.0 and now 31.4.0. My bottom line question is whether I can roll back to the previous version, which was working well for me.
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2. Also, I used to be able to enter a single letter in the address field and then use the mouse to click on the "To:" symbol to the left of the next address line to change the next entry to "Cc:"; doing so would then cause the complete address to fill in in the "To:" address field, and make the next field ready for an entry. That no longer works. If I use that technique, the shortcut that I entered in the first field gets included along with the address (if I'm lucky enough to have the address itself selected now, given the problems I've mentioned above). I now have to press "Enter" in order to get the address in the first field to "take" correctly, and then have to click on the "To:" symbol for the next line as a separate action. Just another inconvenience with the new version.
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When displaying the result in Safari, the font is replaced by Helvetica or Arial (from the looks of it).
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Is it possible to somehow change the default font when creating new documents in Numbers from "Helvetica Neue" to just "Helvetica", size 11? Changing the font and saving the document as new template simply does not work since the font in newly created tables in the new document using the new template still falls back to "Helvetica Neue".

Here is an enhanced version.
You may use it with the three components of iWorks.
It is also available for free on my iDisk:
<http://idisk.me.com/koenigyvan-Public?view=web>
Download:
For_iWork:iWork '09:setiWork_defaultfont.zip
--[SCRIPT setiWork_defaultfont]
Si vous choisissez "Pages" vous verrez:
/* ----- Font Names */
"FONT_Helvetica" = "Helvetica";
"FONT_Helvetica-Bold" = "Helvetica-Bold";
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"FONT_LucidaGrande" = "LucidaGrande";
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Par exemple, pour utiliser Palatino, remplacez nomDeVotrePolice par "Palatino-Roman"
Enregistrez le fichier ainsi modifié par (cmd + S)
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"FONT_Helvetica" = "Helvetica";
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éditez la ligne correspondante comme suit:
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Si vous choisissez "Keynote" vous verrez:
"STYLESeries2" = "Series_2";
"STYLE_None" = "Aucun";
"STYLESeries5" = "Series_5";
"STYLESeries3" = "Series_3";
"FONT_LucidaGrande" = "LucidaGrande";
"FONT_Helvetica" = "Helvetica";
"STYLE_Free Form" = "Format libre";
"STYLESeries1" = "Series_1";
"FONT_GillSans" = "GillSans";
"STYLE_Normal" = "Normal";
"STYLESeries0" = "Series_0";
"FONT_MarkerFelt-Thin" = "MarkerFelt-Thin";
"STYLESeries4" = "Series_4";
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éditez la ligne correspondante comme suit:
"FONT_GillSans" = "nomDeVotrePolice";
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/* ----- Font Names */
"FONT_Helvetica" = "Helvetica";
"FONT_Helvetica-Bold" = "Helvetica-Bold";
"FONT_Helvetica-Oblique" = "Helvetica-Oblique";
"FONT_LucidaGrande" = "LucidaGrande";
The font used as default for tables is the one whose descriptor is "FONT_Helvetica"
edit the line as:
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For instance, to use Palatino, replace "yourFontName" by "Palatino-Roman"
Save the file (cmd + S)
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/* ----- Font Names */
"FONT_Helvetica" = "Helvetica";
"FONT_HelveticaNeue" = "HelveticaNeue";
"FONT_HelveticaNeue-Bold" = "HelveticaNeue-Bold";
"FONT_LucidaGrande" = "LucidaGrande";
"FONT_MarkerFelt-Thin" = "MarkerFelt-Thin";
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edit the line as:
"FONT_HelveticaNeue" = "yourFontName";
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"STYLE_None" = "Aucun";
"STYLESeries5" = "Series_5";
"STYLESeries3" = "Series_3";
"FONT_LucidaGrande" = "LucidaGrande";
"FONT_Helvetica" = "Helvetica";
"STYLE_Free Form" = "Format libre";
"STYLESeries1" = "Series_1";
"FONT_GillSans" = "GillSans";
"STYLE_Normal" = "Normal";
"STYLESeries0" = "Series_0";
"FONT_MarkerFelt-Thin" = "MarkerFelt-Thin";
"STYLESeries4" = "Series_4";
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edit the line as:
"FONT_GillSans" = "yourFontName";
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Arial-Black
Arial-BoldItalicMT
Arial-BoldMT
Arial-ItalicMT
ArialHebrew
ArialHebrew-Bold
ArialMT
ArialNarrow
ArialNarrow-Bold
ArialNarrow-BoldItalic
ArialRoundedMTBold
ArialUnicodeMS
Didot
Didot-Bold
Didot-Italic
Georgia
Georgia-Bold
Georgia-BoldItalic
Georgia-Italic
Helvetica
Helvetica-Oblique
Helvetica-Bold
Helvetica-BoldOblique
HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold
HelveticaNeue-CondensedBlack
HelveticaNeue-UltraLight
HelveticaNeue-UltraLightItalic
HelveticaNeue-Light
HelveticaNeue-LightItalic
HelveticaNeue-Regular
HelveticaNeue-Italic
HelveticaNeue-Bold
HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic
Julius
LucidaGrande
LucidaGrande-Bold
Palatino-Roman
Palatino-Italic
Palatino-Bold
Palatino-boldItalic
Yvan KOENIG (Vallauris, FRANCE)
5 mars 2009
on run
if my parleFrancais() then
set prompt1 to "Choisir l'application"
set prompt2 to "Choisir un modèle"
set prompt3 to "Choisir une localisation"
else
set prompt1 to "Choose the application"
set prompt2 to "Choose a template"
set prompt3 to "Choose a localization"
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choose the application *)
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if theApp is false then error -128
set theApp to item 1 of theApp
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set sub to "Templates"
set theStrings to "Localizable.strings"
else if theApp is "Numbers" then
set allowed to {"com.apple.iWork.Numbers.template", "com.apple.iWork.Numbers.sfftemplate"}
set sub to "Templates"
set theStrings to "Localizable.strings"
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set allowed to {"com.apple.iWork.Keynote.kth", "com.apple.iWork.Keynote.sffkth"}
set sub to "Themes"
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set p2f to (path to applications folder as text) & "iWork '09:" & theApp & ".app:Contents:Resources:" & sub
set p2f to (choose file with prompt prompt2 default location (p2f as alias) of type allowed) as text
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set p2f to p2f & "Contents:Resources"
set p2f to (choose folder default location (p2f as alias) with prompt3) as text
open the localizable.strings file *)
tell application "Finder"
set nb to count of (files of folder p2f whose name starts with "localizable")
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open file theStrings of folder p2f
end tell -- Finder
end run
--=====
on parleFrancais() (* Check if Pages is running in French *)
local z
try
tell application "Pages" to set z to localized string "Cancel"
on error
set z to "Cancel"
end try
return (z = "Annuler")
end parleFrancais
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 8 mars 2009 13:07:38)

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After buying the new iMac and have used it for two day I noticed that some files were in the Trash folder including the Fonts folder (don't ask me how they got there becuase I would swear I didn't move them). Since I didn't know where the Fonts folder belones to (system or user folder) I search on the internet and some people sugested doing a restore using Font Book (File>Restore Standard Fonts), but this made it worse since when it when and check it deletes the existing folders so now I only have the folder that was in the trash and I'm for sure missing one folder.
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I did use FontBook to delete the duplicates.
The applications were working fine before the reinstall, I checked for updates but it doesn’t show any for these applications.
My problem with this is that I cannot reinstall these applications since I have them in a DVD and my computer doesn’t have a DVD drive. I installed them sharing the DVD drive from my old MacBook but I sold it two days ago, the only thing I have is an Acer laptop but I don’t know if it is possible to share the drive.
Is there a way to somehow put my DVDs in a USB drive, so I can install them without needing a DVD drive (assuming I can barrow my nephews Mac which has a DVD drive)?
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