# Font "Corrupted" by MC - weird (problem & solution)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/font-corrupted-by-mc-weird-problem-solution/223272>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 20, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/font-corrupted-by-mc-weird-problem-solution/223272 "2007-04-20T18:39:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![PCGamre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea666f/32.png) [@PCGamre](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/PCGamre)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/font-corrupted-by-mc-weird-problem-solution/223272/1 "2007-04-20T18:39:58Z")

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Don’t know why, but I fixed it and I want to share my experience with you. So if anyone encounters such a problem, this might be the solution for you as well. I’m using Flash MX on WinXP.

\*_PROBLEM: **I’ve been testing a font for my website. It worked fine up until today. Then I republish the movie and all the font looked corrupted. [COLOR=Red]\*\*\*See attached images.**_[/COLOR] EVERYWHERE the font was used in the movie it looked messed up. No other font was affected.

\*\*NOTE: \*\*For all my attached MCs and sounds, I put them all inside “iscMC” (inside its 2nd frame) which is on the 3rd frame of my main movie. This way, the preloader will start near 0% and fixes the problem of the user not seeing the preloader until all attached items are loaded. Many of you are familiar with this technique. For those MCs, I leave the “Export in first frame” option unchecked.

\*\*TESTING: \*\*I started my “debugging”/testing by copying and pasting chunks of frames into new fla. If the problem didn’t occur, then I knew that it wasn’t in those frames. Eg, I copied frames 23 to 93 (last frame) into a new file and tested it. Problem did not occur so I knew it was caused by something in frames 1-22.

I got down to frame 3 where the iscMC was. I went inside and deleted all the sounds therein, retested and the problem remained. Next, undo, then delete all MCs. HA! Problems fixed. Hmm.

\*\*SOLUTION: \*\*Narrowed it down to one MC (called ttMC). Solution: I removed it from the iscMC and just checked the “Export in first frame” option for ttMC in the library and everything solved.

Don’t know why this happened. I have NO idea right now. But the solution wasn’t a “cheat” so I’m moderately happy about it. I just am curious as to know why this happens.