Text objects contain random characters

Post Author: RobR
CA Forum: General
Greetings!
I am running into an extremely irritating problem with CR XI: text objects on my report are printing random characters. This happens in print preview and in printing the report, but the one time I tried exporting a report into a PDF file, it did not happen. I have seen the problem go away if I log off or restart my computer, but it is not reliable. Has anyone seen anything like this?
RobR

Post Author: RobR
CA Forum: General
Some further information: This problem is related to fonts. When I use Courier New or Times New Roman, the problem appears. When I use Comic Sans MS, it doesn't. A given text string always produces the same characters for a font, but for the problem fonts the characters aren't correct. When I click Edit Text, the text suddenly appears correctly, but as soon as I stop editing the text, the text reverts back to the incorrect characters.
Uninstalling and reinsalling CR XI did not solve the problem.
RobR

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