Opera CSS broken on Windows
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davehawley last edited by
Well that's even stranger!
There was a problem for quite a while with the Opera UI fonts ages ago, they were all broken up, although web pages looked fine.
That was affecting Google Chrome as well, so I assume was a Chromium problem.
Why you should be experiencing this and apparently no-one else is a mystery.
I would try completely uninstalling and reinstalling Opera.
If you back up your profile folder first, if this does not fix things you can simply put the backup back in place of the new profile folder that the new install will generate, and everything should be back as it was before.
Still in mourning for Opera 12.........
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throwaway002 last edited by
Will report how it goes.
EDIT : See for yourself. https://imgur.com/wDP3aCo Latest stable build, completely fresh installation etc etc.
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davehawley last edited by
I assume the settings page is missing all its text too on the new clean install.
I can only assume this is a missing font on your system.
If it were a problem with Opera surely others would have reported it too.
I wish I could help more, but without knowing exactly which font Opera uses for the display of that text, it's hard to troubleshoot further.
Still in mourning for Opera 12.........
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throwaway002 last edited by
I assume the settings page is missing all its text too on the new clean install.
I can only assume this is a missing font on your system.
If it were a problem with Opera surely others would have reported it too.
I wish I could help more, but without knowing exactly which font Opera uses for the display of that text, it's hard to troubleshoot further.Uh, the font that is being used for that text is called Blank.ttf (http://sourceforge.net/adobe/adobe-blank/wiki/Home/).
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davehawley last edited by
Ah, sorry yes you mentioned that earlier!
That font does not exist on my system.
It appears to be exactly what the name implies, a blank font!
If Opera is using it, that would certainly explain the missing text.
Is it on your system?
If it is try deleting it.
Still in mourning for Opera 12.........
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throwaway002 last edited by
I made a custom theme - it's using it. Oh well, will delete font and report results.
EDIT - Worked. CSS still looks like https://imgur.com/Vny3FWd but fonts are visible. Now, of course, problem is that my theme is broken... Thank you for your help.
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davehawley last edited by
Well I'm glad we got to the answer, but I do wish you'd mentioned that you were using a custom theme a bit earlier, it would have been an important clue!
I'm afraid I don't know enough about how customising themes works to make any suggestions for a solution.
Hopefully someone else will.
Did you manage to restore your original profile OK? That's assuming that you didn't just do the new test install into a different folder, which is what I actually should have suggested myself of course!
Still in mourning for Opera 12.........
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throwaway002 last edited by
Yes, I didn't lose any data, due to the fact that I kept backups. But this should be fixed - that font is integral to many Win7/8 themes. Ideal solution would be simply to revert to the state it was at 27 - font-family:custom font rather than font-family: Blank.
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davehawley last edited by
I've just looked at my installation of Opera developer 30.0.1820.0 and there is no mention of the "Blank" font in the source code of the settings page, so maybe it's already been addressed.
Try installing that version from here and see if that does the same thing.
I would just install it as a standalone installation into a different folder as I should have suggested before.
Still in mourning for Opera 12.........
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throwaway002 last edited by
Dead end - problem still remains. Had to delete font with command line interface.
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davehawley last edited by
Oh well, it was worth a try!
One possible workaround for this, and as I said I don't know how you actually make themes, would be to try changing the name of the font file to something else, so Opera won't know what it is, and then call it in your theme using its new name, if that's possible to do.
If Opera is looking for blank.ttf, simply call the file blank1.ttf or whatever.
Still in mourning for Opera 12.........
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davehawley last edited by
So, have you tried it?
Did it work?
Still in mourning for Opera 12.........
