Italic Fonts in Internet Explorer, Safari aiya everywhere?

• chocolates-xed

  19 Dec 07, 21:07

  ya, my laptop is windows xp media center edition running on a core 2 duo
  it wasn't italic till i restarted the computer then when it restarted, i saw the "Type your name" in the welcome screen italic, i opened IE and safari and saw that the words were bold and italic..
  
  anyone know how to solve this problem?
  
  thanks ppl
• ndmmxiaomayi

  20 Dec 07, 00:10

  Does it look like this?
  
  
• chocolates-xed

  20 Dec 07, 17:15

  mine is the total opposite
  [IMG]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/nickelcola92/Snap1.png[/IMG]
  
• ndmmxiaomayi

  20 Dec 07, 17:17

  Very small. Got big one?
• chocolates-xed

  20 Dec 07, 18:38

  
• ndmmxiaomayi

  20 Dec 07, 19:07

  Hmm... weird. Can't seem to replicate your problem.
  
  What did you do before this problem occurs?
• chocolates-xed

  20 Dec 07, 19:47

  restart the computer and it was after some automatic update that i restarted
  
  
• LatecomerX

  20 Dec 07, 20:13

  Originally posted by chocolates-xed:

  restart the computer and it was after some automatic update that i restarted
  
  

  I'm guessing that the Arial font files on your computer have been mixed up or corrupted. Try this solution, at your own risk:
  
  1. Do a backup of the font files that are related to Arial in the folder "C:\WINDOWS\Fonts" by selecting the files and right-click drag them into a folder, then choose Copy.
  
  2. Download this SFX and extract it to the specified folder.
  http://dl.latecomerx.com/Arial.exe
  
  3. Restart your computer and let us know whether it worked for you. There's still a 22 MB Arial Unicode font file that is not included in the SFX, but uploading it is quite a chore. I'll upload it if the above doesn't work for you.
  
• chocolates-xed

  20 Dec 07, 20:44

  
  this is the result, i also did reboot my com and try again and the same result as the 1st happened, so what next?
• chocolates-xed

  20 Dec 07, 20:48

  hey mr LatecomerX!! thanks loads, it worked perfectly!
  (:
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Dec 07, 03:51

  Ah, learnt something new.
  
  How did you figure out it was a corrupted font?
• LatecomerX

  21 Dec 07, 07:29

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Ah, learnt something new.
  
  How did you figure out it was a corrupted font?

  I took a close look at his screenshot, and referred to the CSS stylesheet used on sgForums. The text which are in italics have the Arial font applied whereas the links and other text which appeared normal are using Verdana, and maybe some other fonts.
  
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Dec 07, 17:17

  Originally posted by LatecomerX:

  I took a close look at his screenshot, and referred to the CSS stylesheet used on sgForums. The text which are in italics have the Arial font applied whereas the links and other text which appeared normal are using Verdana, and maybe some other fonts.
  

  Oh... I went the same route as you. But... I did another thing. Wrote a CSS file and load it. That didn't fully replicate the problem though.
• LatecomerX

  21 Dec 07, 19:32

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Oh... I went the same route as you. But... I did another thing. Wrote a CSS file and load it. That didn't fully replicate the problem though.

  Tried the following CSS properties already?
  
  

  code:

  
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: bold;
  

  
  
  http://latecomerx.com/(lab)/test/italics/
  
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Dec 07, 20:24

  Originally posted by LatecomerX:

  Tried the following CSS properties already?
  
  

  code:

  
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: bold;
  

  
  
  http://latecomerx.com/(lab)/test/italics/
  

  Yup. Strangely, I didn't replicate the problem.
  
  Edit: Figured my mistake.