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Missing Characters

Problem
Some characters appear as white boxes with a black outline.

Solution
Characters missing from the PFR

The characters that appear as white boxes are missing from the portable font resource (PFR) you created with WebFont Wizard. You can check the sample HTML page created with the PFR to see what characters were recorded.

You must recreate the PFR to fix the problem. With WebFont Wizard, you can select the characters you want to record, from a single character to the complete character set. When you record the new PFR, make sure you have selected all the characters you need.

Also remember that some fonts contain only uppercase or lowercase letters, not a complete character set. If the font does not include lower case letters, for example, then if you type lower case letters in your Web page, the letters appear as white boxes.

Refreshing the page

Refresh the page by holding down the SHIFT key and clicking the Reload (Netscape) or Refresh (Internet Explorer) button. This forces the browser to reload the entire page without using cached information.

Adding Multi-Language Support

If you are using a Pan European font (WGL4 font) , make sure you have added the UTF-8 character set in the <HEAD> tags of your page.

Multiple PFRs for the same font

If you use the same font in two or more PFRs, and you recorded different characters in each PFR, you may see empty character boxes on your page. To solve this problem:

  • Re-record the PFR with all the characters you need in a single PFR file. Change all the <LINK> tags to this new PFR.
  • Change the point size of the font.

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