IE 6 fonts gone wacko on some web sites or...

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Wes Stebbins

I am working on upgrading a friends computer. He has PhotoShop, InDesign,
etc. I took his computer home to upgrade it, and only took the "box" (no
monitor or other peripherals) to my shop. I noticed while going to
Microsoft's Windows Update web site to get latest XP Pro upgrades) that the
text was practically unreadable, yet other web sites appear to display jsut
fine.

Then I learned about this Adobe Gamma thing - apparently it calibrates to a
specific monitor. Could this be the problem I'm having when I hook his box
up to my monitors (I've actually tried a couple different monitors of mine
and it still doesn't display the microsoft site very well)? Or when I take
it back will it work fine with his monitor?

Or, by some quirk - is it a bad video card (but bench test show the video
card should be just fine)? I've replaced the video card - used two
different monitors, etc.
Are is it an Internet Explorer fonts thing?
 
Thanks very much - sincerely - for the URL, but the problem is with a
computer (my friends) that has Windows XP Pro and practically everything
related to that URL and its links was related to Windows 98 and earlier -
not XP.

Could it be that - when my friend installed his Adobe software - he has a
printing company that is virtuall all Adobe products - perhaps he installed
some default fonts for his software that inadvertently removed/altered the
default IE 6 fonts, etc.?

What can I do to check this? According to my defaults, etc., on all of MY
other computers that work - I have:
in "IE6\Tools\Internet Options\General\Fonts"
Language script: Latin based
Web page font: Times New Roman
Plain text font: Courier New

Also,
in "IE6\Tools\Internet Options\Accessibility" everything is unchecked;

Also, in "IE6\Tools\Internet Options\Security\Custom Level…” I have "Font
Download - Enable" checked.

I need to check those fonts, etc. on my friends computer, but what if
they're the same? Are could it be something else?
 
Could it be that - when my friend installed his Adobe software - he has a
printing company that is virtually all Adobe products - perhaps he
installed some default fonts for his software that inadvertently
removed/altered the default IE 6 fonts, etc.?



What can I do to check this? According to my defaults, etc., on all of MY
other computers that work - I have:

in "IE6\Tools\Internet Options\General\Fonts"

Language script: Latin based

Web page font: Times New Roman

Plain text font: Courier New



Also,

in "IE6\Tools\Internet Options\Accessibility" everything is unchecked;



Also, in "IE6\Tools\Internet Options\Security\Custom Level." I have "Font
Download - Enable" checked.



I need to check those fonts, etc. on my friends computer, but what if
they're the same? Are could it be something else? (even the motherboard?)
 
in "IE6\Tools\Internet Options\Accessibility" everything is unchecked;

If it is only "some web sites" chances are that the fonts are being
specified by the source so to test the fonts that you want to use
(or the ones that you suspect are causing the problem) you may
*need* to be using the Accessibility dialog's overrides for font
selection.

I haven't yet found a way of identifying which font is being used
to render any particular character or string from a webpage.
Having a procedure or tool which did that would make this type
of analysis much easier.

For an example of proof that what you suspect may be happening
can happen see this recent thread in this newsgroup:

Subject: Re: unrecognizable characters in IE 6
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:58:03 -0700

Hint: if you don't have that message in your cache search Google Groups
for that Message-ID with its msgid: type specifier.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
 
We installed Mozilla Fire Fox and now he can read the text just fine in the
sites. So, that tells me there must be something related to IE6 and its
fonts, etc.

Regarding your post, how come - if the Accessibility settings are identical
on two computers that ae networked in my friends office - the one being the
computer in question we've been discussing - why should I have to change the
settings (i.e., the font overrides you mention) on one but not the other,
when the other can read the text just fine?
 
Wes Stebbins said:
We installed Mozilla Fire Fox and now he can read the text just fine in the
sites. So, that tells me there must be something related to IE6 and its
fonts, etc.

Regarding your post, how come - if the Accessibility settings are identical
on two computers that ae networked in my friends office - the one being the
computer in question we've been discussing - why should I have to change the
settings (i.e., the font overrides you mention) on one but not the other,
when the other can read the text just fine?
Click to expand...

Are the fonts on the two machines identical? Are you sure there is no
corruption in any of them? Did you look at other thread I provided as
an example?

I was suggesting it as a diagnostic for figuring out which fonts might
be causing the problem.


Robert
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Please send the link again - differently - I cannot go to that link for some
reason.
Thanks.
 
Wes Stebbins said:
Please send the link again - differently - I cannot go to that link for some
reason.
Click to expand...

That's probably because you are using your ISP's news server.

FYI it is usually better to use msnews to access microsoft.public
newsgroups. Since you are using OE you could click on the following link
to create a new news account for it:

< news://msnews.microsoft.com/ >

Then after it downloads the list of newsgroups press Ctrl-w and type 6.b

Or just enter that newsgroup directly via this link:

< news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser >

Or take the Message-ID from the link I gave and prefix it with that server's name:

< news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected] >


Or take the Message-ID from the link I gave, prefix it by msgid:
and use that as a search argument for Google Groups:

< http://groups.google.com/groups?q=m...crosoft.com&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search >


Notice that I also provided the Subject and Date headers which
could have been used as search criteria on any newsreader,
including Google Groups and the MS Communities web interface.
E.g. that might be useful on your server to find bits of the thread
even if the specific Messge-ID I cited was unavailable.


HTH

Robert
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