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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...

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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

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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.


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