Bizarre symbols on generated reports

[Allen Cogbill]

Thanks; I used option (2) below and that solved the problem.

A. Cogbill

On 3/7/2014 01:25, Geert Janssens wrote:
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> On Thursday 06 March 2014 12:51:51 Allen Cogbill wrote:
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> > Recently upgraded to v.2.6.2. Now, when printing a report or producing
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> > a chart, bizarre symbols appear rather than numbers -- seems to
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> > depend upon the font in use, as some bold-faced fonts print OK.
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> > Locale is set to US English.
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> > Using Win 8. These problems did not appear under the previous version
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> > of gnucash.
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> > I hoping this can be easily fixed, but I haven't found out how yet.
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> This issue has appeared several times recently. It looks like the 
> default font on Windows is not properly detected.
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> There are two options to work around this:
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> 1. Open "Select Theme" from the start menu (or whatever this is under 
> Windows 8) and choose a default font there. GnuCash will pick it up.
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> 2. In gnucash you can also edit the stylesheet for your report via
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> Edit->Style Sheets and select other fonts there.
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> Geert
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