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#1 2008-07-02 11:37 pm

GreenAlge
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Italic text looks crappy on windows...

So, here's a snapshot of a web page in Safari and Firefox on Mac:
http://nikmolnar.com/random/Picture-2.png

And here's the same page in both Internet Explorer and Firefox in Windows:
http://nikmolnar.com/random/Picture-1.png

Any way I can make italic text look better on Windows (strangely, Safari in Windows renders it beautifully)? I tried giving an explicit font family, thinking that maybe it was just differing default fonts, and I even tried bumping the point size up a couple notches. No luck...

Thanks!
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#2 2008-07-04 8:37 am

Metacell
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Re: Italic text looks crappy on windows...

I know their is a control panel in Windows XP to use anti-aliased fonts, which is not on by default.  Dadgum it if I can remember where it is though...


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#3 2008-07-04 3:37 pm

mrreet2001
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Re: Italic text looks crappy on windows...

Metacell wrote:

I know their is a control panel in Windows XP to use anti-aliased fonts, which is not on by default.  Dadgum it if I can remember where it is though...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usin … rtype.mspx


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#4 2008-07-05 12:15 am

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Re: Italic text looks crappy on windows...

smurf 'em for using winders.


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#5 2008-07-05 5:38 am

Metacell
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Re: Italic text looks crappy on windows...

Smurf the game developers for making me use Winders.


...having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76, now look to a single and splendid government of an aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures, commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry. -- TJ

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