Confluence Edit page - macros display strange characters

[Del Jensen]

Since upgrading to Confluence 6.4.1, when edit a page with various types of macros, the text in the macro block are illegible characters that describe the macro.

This is an example of the Table of Contents macro as displayed in the Edit page.

[Colin Goudie · Accepted solution]

I ended up having to 

> sudo yum groupinstall fonts

> sudo fc-cache -f -v

[Del Jensen]

Awesome, that solved it!  Updating the fonts was the ticket!

Thank you, Colin!!

[Andrey Aristarkhov]

Didn't help in my case even after confluence restart/

[Pavel Savchenko]

Same for me, did the above mentioned guide + groupinstall fonts, nothing seems to have changed.

[TerraTech11]

Did not work for us either, even after font install, fc-cache, and reboot.  :(

[earlramirez]

Have you tried this?

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-ui-shows-garbled-or-corrupt-text-on-captcha-macros-and-or-diagrams-due-to-missing-fonts-938027858.html

[earlramirez]

These steps worked for me

1. Installed the required fonts

   yum install -y ghostscript dejavu-fonts-common dejavu-sans-fonts dejavu-sans-mono-fonts motif

2. Stop Confluence 
   /opt/atlassian/confluence/stop-confluence.sh
3. Rebuild font cache 
   fc-cache -s
4. Clear Confluence plugin cache (Confluence home is usually in /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence/, this can vary if the administrator installed it in a different location.
   

   rm -rf <confluence-home>/bundled-plugins
   rm -rf <confluence-home>/plugins-cache
   rm -rf <confluence-home>/plugins-osgi-cache
   rm -rf <confluence-home>/plugins-temp
   rm -rf <confluence-home>/bundled-plugins_language

5. Rebuild content indexes.
   As Admin navigate to General Configuration → Administration → Content Indexing and click Rebuild, this will take a few minutes.
6. Start Confluence 
   /opt/atlassian/confluence/stop-confluence.sh
7. Confirm that you are able to see the fonts for the macros.

[David Puchosic]

Found this helpful for Confluence 6.8.2 on CentOS 7.5. Macros didn't have crazy fonts, but they weren't correct either. This was my solution:

1. Installed fonts
   $ yum install dejavu-fonts-common dejavu-sans-fonts dejavu-sans-mono-fonts
2. Updated Font cache
   $ fc-cache /usr/local/share/fonts/
3. Stopped Confluence
4. Cleared Plugin cache
   # /var/atlassian/confluence/plugins-cache
   # /var/atlassian/confluence/plugins-osgi-cache
5. Started Confluence & Cleared Browser History
   (later) Rebuild content indexes

[Colin Goudie · Accepted solution]

I'm chasing this to see if it's the issue

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-ui-shows-garbled-or-corrupt-text-on-captcha-macros-and-or-diagrams-due-to-missing-fonts-938027858.html

[earlramirez]

This worked for me, thanks.

[Colin Goudie]

We're getting this on some sites too. Any ideas?