Fixing small black dots in Flash text fields
Troubleshooting fonts can be one of the most frustrating endeavors, since many times small changes can result in small and unexpected behaviors, including application interfaces not loading, but more commonly garbled text. Many times applications will install their own fonts in the global or user library, which in itself may be enough to cause a conflict with existing fonts.
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