Out of the blue, adobe reader menu fonts are missing. Instead of the usual drop down menu text, all I see are squares.

Does anyone know what font adobe reader uses for it's menus?

Slackware current 64 bit. I'm wondering if Slackware current dropped that font from it's base install?

I know this sounds like a silly solution, but try rebooting. The rc.M initialization script does quite a bit to make sure that fonts and themes are in a good state.

have a look at Vik's post here, a reboot should fix it (those scripts are executed at every boot).

Thank you both of you - a reboot fixed it. Go figure! I'm not sure what broke, but that was indeed all it took.

I almost never shut down or reboot. When I'm going to be gone for a while, I put the machine into hibernate. I've used Windows for over 20 years, since Windows286 came out, and in all that time I've only seen one Windows machine that would successfully hibernate and resume every time. With Windows, there is almost always a driver or something that disrupts the power-on-restore from hibernate, there is almost always something that doesn't work. Linux, OTOH, hibernates and resumes every time! So I hibernate now instead of powering off