# Flash Menu Font **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [March 18, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873 "2003-03-18T22:09:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dr\_vroeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dr\_vroeg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dr_vroeg)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/1 "2003-03-18T22:09:21Z")
At this point I feel like a complete tool… I reinstalled Flash MX and the font that appears on Flash’s GUI is really small and completely unreadable. I have changed the res on my computer, the font from the preferences menu and the size too but now I am out of options that I know of… HELP!!!:ub: Thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/2 "2003-03-19T03:36:11Z")
This has happened to a few people. I haven’t seen a thread where the problem was solved though, so I am not going to bother searching. Did you try contacting Macromedia? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/3 "2003-03-19T03:53:48Z")
weird! I’m interested to know what the deal with that is, and how you fix it. In case I ever run into it myself. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/4 "2003-03-19T15:49:01Z")
Well thanks anyway…I have been trying to contact Macromedia but they have been unresponsive. It is the wierdest thing, all the other text that appears on the MX GUI is normal system font but the font that appears in the drop down menus, the timeline, the color selector etc. is a very small almost pixel font. What I don’t get is that this font only appears in the “dynamic” parts of Flash.(the sections that change)…:pope: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/5 "2003-03-19T18:01:17Z")
Yeah, thats the same exactly thing that happened to other members in the past here. We couldn’t find any solution and told them to contact macromedia. None of them replied after that, so we don’t know what happened, if it was fixed or not, and if so, then how. I am interested in finding out the solution to this problem as well. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/6 "2003-03-19T18:11:13Z")
well the last solution will be to completely uninstall Flash MX… the reg and whatever comes with it… or reinstall windows… which IS healthy for your computer in any ways… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/7 "2003-03-19T18:25:48Z")
even with a brand new program and brand new computer? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/8 "2003-03-19T18:28:31Z")
> \*Originally posted by mlkdesign \* > \*\*well the last solution will be to completely uninstall Flash MX… the reg and whatever comes with it… or reinstall windows… which IS healthy for your computer in any ways… \*\* Apparently uninstalling and reinstalling from scratch didn’t work for the other members, but I don’t think they reformatted their whole drive either. I could see how that could work, but I don’t see how that is a feasable solution. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/9 "2003-03-19T19:14:40Z")
The only solution I could come up with was to get a font manager like ATM and get rid of any corrupt files but that didn’t change anything so right now I think that I am going to copy the reg and font directory from a system that is working and maybe that will work…if that works I will let everyone know what I did so this doesn’t happen every single time!:crazy: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/10 "2003-03-19T20:54:52Z")
:beam: I am Happy to say that I have figured out the problem that has plagued many new flash users or those of us who installed on a new OS. It just so happens that Flash’s System Font is Lucinda Console and for whatever reason if the files is out of date, corrupt, or anything then it will appear in the Flash GUI as a lo res pixel font that is un-readable. Even if you go to Windows/fonts and open the font it will appear to be fine. My first inclination was to replace the entire font folder with one that I had on another computer(or you can get it from a friend) but what I sooned discovered is that if you find someone who has a working copy of the entire Lucinda Console family that you can just copy that and place it in the folt directory and then restart Flash and that should do the trick!! Hope it works for the rest of you! :tie: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/11 "2003-03-19T20:58:37Z")
alright, nice work! glad to see you figured it out. 🙂 _files this away for later use_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/12 "2003-03-19T21:01:52Z")
WOW!!! Finally someone figured it out. Thanks man. Don’t mind me, I am going to add a few keyworks in here in case I need to search for this thread later I can search for these strings… Small Fonts Flash displaying small fonts Lucinda Console (isn’t it actually Lucida Console? or am I confused?) Contact Macromedia Weird Display of Fonts in Flash Corrupted Fonts Corrupted font files. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/13 "2003-03-19T21:05:36Z")
> \*Originally posted by lostinbeta \* > **Lucinda Console (isn’t it actually Lucida Console? or am I confused?)** > you are, but we still love you. :love: [size=1][that is correct, btw :)][/size] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/14 "2003-03-19T21:08:40Z")
Lost you are right, I was just excited…I had happy fingers:beam: I am just glad that I could finally be of some use on this board!:cowboy: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/15 "2003-03-19T22:10:21Z")
Were you not the one that bailed out whats his name when he was about to lose that bet because he couldn’t fake a picture? You came through there, thats useful 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-menu-font/15873/16 "2003-03-19T22:10:21Z")
Were you not the one that bailed out whats his name when he was about to lose that bet because he couldn’t fake a picture? You came through there, thats useful 🙂