This probably sounds weird, but a font may have become corrupt after you ran
the SP.
Take another look at the scrambled letters; there may be a pattern you can
discern. If you add or subtract three letters to or from each one (d=a or
d=g), and try to disregard the screwed-up spacing between "words" you may be
able to decipher what was originally written.
This happened to me, too, and what I suspect is that the service pack
corrupted Arial. A subsequent Finder search for "Arial" resulted in several
fonts about 228KB and one about 1MB. Once I removed the bloated Arial,
everything appeared fine.
On 10/12/05 7:17 PM, in article
C66D6C77-F032-4C60-804A-75D58CE14083@microsoft.com, "Todd Stubbs" <Todd
Stubbs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I am using FontAgent Pro to hold some very large libraries of fonts. Since
> the last service pack (a month ago, Sept 05) some message appear with
> scrabled letters--completely unintelligible. If I run Entourage with
> FontAgent Pro turned off, it appears to fix it.
>
> Any ideas?