Grr and Argh with a topping of WTF sauce

[azurelunatic]

I have been, for the past month, steaming about a WordPerfect problem. After I installed the printer drivers that didn't work, the text of my files stopped displaying; the text only displayed as little grey dots, not as actual characters. The characters were still there: I can see them when I do Reveal Codes. They can be copied, pasted.

Repairing the bugger didn't work. Reinstalling the bugger didn't work.

I'm damn near at the end of my geeky rope here, and about ready to tie a slip-knot in it.

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unasked-for meddling

[boojum.livejournal.com]

Do you have font issues? I've seen that (more commonly boxes, but occasionally little gray things that seemed to map mostly to punctuation) on boxes that are Not Coping Well With Fonts in some form or other. It sometimes survives un-/re-installation, because fonts are stored somewhat separately from programs.

I don't know if that helps much, because fonts are mongo black magic anyway, but maybe.

Re: unasked-for meddling

[azurelunatic]

I was going to say that I don't appear to have font issues, but then I suddenly remembered that for some reason, when I was playing with the Gimp last, that when I was trying to put words on something, words did not go. At all.

Re: unasked-for meddling

[azurelunatic]

Well, bugger that with a game of mashed potatoes. It now seems that the little grey dots are very teeny tiny letters, ... once you zoom it to 400%.

I couldn't sleep, see.

Re: unasked-for meddling

[azurelunatic]

Stupid goddamn Jerry-Springer-loving half-baked excuse for an end-user-licking pile of kludge.

When I deleted the printers from the system, not just uninstalling the drivers, the problem went away.

Re: unasked-for meddling

[boojum.livejournal.com]

Yay! Well, not yay for the half-baked problem, but yay for the fixing of the problem.

Re: unasked-for meddling

[azurelunatic]

Now I suspect I'll have a hairy time getting things to print...