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[Jan Henrik Øverland <janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx>]

This seems to happen only with font size = 10px and 12px. Changed it to
13px. Looks ok now, as good as it gets on Windoze at least (FF4 actually has
some default font antialiasing).

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:55, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 6 June 2011 10:44, Jan Henrik Øverland <janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hi Jason, I guess you are missing that we use @font-face now. Are you sure
>> the CSS says LiberationSans and not LiberationSansRegular /
>> LiberationSansBold? The font pack is created by
>> http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ . It shouldn't really matter whether you
>> have Liberation Sans installed or not. I have no idea why this happens on
>> Windows and not Ubuntu.
>
>
> Ah ok.  I was doing a quick check on the demo site.  I see this is now
> changed.  Good.  Looks well here ...
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:36, Jason Pickering <
>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Bob,
>>>
>>> I actually have LiberationSans installed on my Windoze machine which
>>> may explain why this is happening. My CSS says that the font should be
>>> rendered in LiberationSans, not Arial. Changing LiberationSans to
>>> Arial/Helvetica works fine and the "s" appears as normal.
>>>
>>> The weird thing is that it displays Arial for just a fraction of a
>>> second, and then seems to change to LiberationSans.
>>>
>>
> I think sans css, the browser is displaying headers in Arial.  Then the css
> is applied ...  I guess for the average windoze user he is just going to get
> the arial fallback anyway, so its not too serious but interesting that your
> liberation fonts seem a bit dodgy.  Does changing size (ctrl-+ etc) make any
> differemce?
>
> Bob.
>
>>
>>> Seems likely a weird combination on my system, but not sure.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I suspect this just shows that you are a good person :-)
>>> >
>>> > By which I'm thinking that maybe you are using a clean linux without
>>> any
>>> > "grey" ms fonts installed. These bits of text are rendered in arial
>>> font
>>> > according to the css, falling back to sans-serif
>>> >
>>> > Could be your browser is font-substituting something for arial which is
>>> not
>>> > quite ok. (Arial is a virus distributed by default on windows)
>>> >
>>> > So we could just say use windoze and all will be well :-)  Or install
>>> > ms-corefonts which I always do but I know its dodgy legally.  Or
>>> suggest a
>>> > free font in the css, falling back to arial.  Or see if you can figure
>>> out
>>> > what chrome is substituting.
>>> >
>>> > Now I've just read your mail.  Weird.  Doesn't make sense that the
>>> browser
>>> > would be messing with a font that is installed in the OS.  Can you use
>>> > firebug and play with the font setting?  Try Helvetica.
>>> >
>>> > Cheers
>>> > Bob
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 6 June 2011 10:01, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Yeah, a bit of a kooky title for an email, and a very small issue, but
>>> >> the latest trunk version seems all "s" seemed to be somewhat smaller.
>>> >> Is this just a browser thing with Chrome? Any body else seen this? See
>>> >> attached screen shot.
>>> >>
>>> >> Regards,
>>> >> Jason
>>> >>
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