letters not appearing on aim?

[rudeguy]

My friend keeps iming me on aim and I cannot see what she is saying. She can see my words just fine, everyone else can see hers too...and no, she doesnt have her font color set to white....any ideas?

 

[AgentEL]

background color set to black?

 

[yukichigai]

It may be a corrupt font or something similar. If the font immediately before the system font in the load process is corruped then your system font -- or whatever the default AIM font is -- will not show on the screen. There's an option to ignore font codes and display only a certain font on the screen. Try using that and see what happens. You also may have to sort through the font folder for a corrupt font. I believe there's freeware out there that will do this automatically, though I don't have any links.

 

[rudeguy]

I can see everyone else's just fine...maybe I should just uninstall and reinstall

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
I can see everyone else's just fine...maybe I should just uninstall and reinstall

Try what I said first. It may just be a corrupt file. Now that I think about it AIM usually uses the font with the name closest to the one your friend is using. Ask your friend to switch to a different font if you can't figure out AIM and see if you can talk to him then.

Would somebody post a link to software that'll diagnose corrupt fonts?

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: rudeguy
I can see everyone else's just fine...maybe I should just uninstall and reinstall

Try what I said first. It may just be a corrupt file. Now that I think about it AIM usually uses the font with the name closest to the one your friend is using. Ask your friend to switch to a different font if you can't figure out AIM and see if you can talk to him then.

Would somebody post a link to software that'll diagnose corrupt fonts?

thanks, that fixed it