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Strange characters in Vim
I'm have this really strange problem in Vim using the NERD tree plugin, where, as you can see in the picture, the characters are showing up very strange. Where there is the ahat, ~V 3/4 it should be ...
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Cause for bad font rendering in Chrome?
I notice that the text on some web pages look bad when viewed in Chrome (16.0.912.77 m) while OK with Firefox (10.0). FWIW, I'm using the Windows versions of those applications, with default settings.
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Windows 7 fonts folder asks for nonexistent Admin
I can't open or add to my fonts folder... I'm asked for "trusted Installer" a user which (as far as I can tell does not exist.
Additionally, it also crashes Windows Explorer every time I try to open ...
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NetBeans ubuntu font monospaced plane 15 for Eclipse
I use NetBeans IDE for Java web development, and I really enjoy NetBeans Monospaced font for Ubuntu. But now I started using Eclipse for Android projects and I would like to know if there's anyway of ...
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Intelligent font viewer for Windows
I am looking for a font viewer for Windows 7 which would allow me to view my installed fonts. It should have these features:
Allow to view samples of my chosen text in a grid form for easy comparison
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Resolving Chinese font differences on Mac and Windows versions of Office
My wife's office uses a certain standard Chinese font (Fang Zheng Kai Ti) for their documents, which is available with Office on Windows but not Mac (which has other similar-looking fonts, but nothing ...
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Windows font directory doesn't display all fonts installed
My Windows Fonts directory only displays 22 fonts, while i have around 1000 fonts installed. How do I unhide the remaining fonts?
When i view the fonts using BitStream Navigator I can view all fonts. ...
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Change URLs with percent signs back to their original language
How can I convert a link which has percentages and dollars in the URL into its original language?
I don't want it displayed like the following
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Photoshop shows warning that some .otf fonts are missing in Windows 7
I need to use a font in Photoshop. My friends gave them to me in the .otf format. I installed those fonts in Windows 7 64 Bit, but at first they were not showing on my Photoshop font list.
I ...
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Dynamically adjust browser fonts not to overflow the width
I use Iceweasel at the moment since I'm on a Debian system, but I have no problem changing browser to whatever would work on my system. So, feel free to answer my question for any browser, plugin ...
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Hiragana console font for GNU/Linux?
This guide doesn't give the information I need, saying only:
Please be aware that japanese is not possible on purely console mode, unless you have an advanced text mode AND a special software.
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Are .fon (bitmap font) files needed in Windows XP?
I'm trying to make a minimal XP installation for low-end machines, and I want to remove anything that could slow the system down.
I've heard many fonts installed slow down the boot process, so I'd ...
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Display characters on a square grid?
How can I display characters as if they are square in vim? The characters themselves don't need to be square, but if you were to draw a grid through all centre points of the characters it should make ...
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woff font creating
I have a open type unicode font created for largely Devanagari codepoints. I want to use it on a website. I converted the font to woff using fontforge. using default options. But once the font is ...
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Shortcut or utility program to temporarily disable subpixel font rendering when making a screen capture / screenshot
Anyone know a utility program or a shortcut that disable subpixel font rendering when capturing a screen?
I'm capturing for print output, so it's better to have regular font smoothing than subpixel.
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Notepad++: I want to highlight questions in multiple colors?
I've written a script in Notepad++, and I want to highlight individual lines based on who is speaking. I'm just trying to find a place where I can change text color or background color for individual ...
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Firefox: Why is my font bold and italic?
I us duckduckgo a lot and recently the font that shows up on duckduckgo is bold and italic. Actually, the font when entering the title of this question is bold and italic.
I hate that font. Why is it ...
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Ghostscript: how do I find out what fonts are available?
In Ghostscript, on a windows xp pc with an inkjet printer, how can I see a sample of the fonts available on my system? I need to know what they are called to invoke them, and it would be useful to ...
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Firefox no longer reders text in <pre> tags?
Using debian wheezy and iceweasel, I somehow managed to have it no longer redering text in pre tags. It still shows the background but no text. This is no color problem, I cannot select anything. I ...
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Find free EAN-8 barcode font [closed]
Good morning,
After an extensive search, i didn't find anything useful, so if anyone can help me i appreciate.
Do you know the name of any free font that can be used with EAN-8 barcode?
Thank you.
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Why does a font on my computer show up under one user account but not another?
I have a font called Pump LET Plain Demi Bold installed on my Windows 7 computer and it shows up and can be used when logged in an account that is part of the administrator group but not as an account ...
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How can I force a font style for ALL users of Word 2010 on a computer?
We have a lab with many different users. Word 2010 defaults to Calibri. They want all users to have a default of Times New Roman. Is this possible?
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Russian fonts in an English Illustrator CS5
A problem software platform is the following system:
Windows 7 Professional English
MS Office 2010 Eng
Adobe Illustrator CS5
Windows has a rather small set of fonts that come pre-configured out of ...
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Are there any fonts with Asian coverage that can be used freely on web-pages?
I have searched through the site but didn't find anything related to my question so I'm asking; I also hope this is the right place to ask.
I've tried to look around but there seems to be lack of ...
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Arial font missing — browsers showing most text as italic or bold
Today I opened up my browser (Opera 11.60) and noticed that all of the font was italicized. There are still some text that isn't italicized, but most of the text is italicized. I then opened up ...
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Any Experiences deploying Ecofont? [closed]
I mean what are the negative thing about Ecofont, or what are the "success" stories? Are there anything that we need to give bigger attention when deploying it in a company?
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Text in Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Live Mail is blurry until I resize the window
In Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Live Mail the text in the application window (I'm using the Verdana font) is blurry, like this:
That is, until I resize the window, even by just a pixel, and ...
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Error importing ttf font in Mac
I get this error when installing a font:
If I continue, it goes on with the installation and fonts show the basic chars fine, but the joints fon't work. So the letters are all in 'isolated' form, ...
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Is it possible to convert an Open Face Font to TTF?
I purchased several fonts, and they installed in my fonts folder. They don't show up in any of my card programs or email, so they're of no use to me.
I see them listed and can use them in Notepad and ...
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Strange web font issue?
Why is this happening? I'm using Windows 7 32bit with the latest stable Chrome build.
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How to most easily add a glyph to a font (such as a diacritic)?
What is the easiest way (or one of the easy ones) to add a glyph (such as a letter č) to a font that doesn't have it? I would create that glyph from another glyph. For example, to create the glyph č, ...
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Fonts in Windows 7 are different from what they're supposed to be
I am having an issue with Windows 7 fonts. Someone messed up the default fonts and it is causing an issue with reports and websites where the font is different than what it is supposed to be.
This ...
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Text editor to test TTF fonts in Windows?
I have hundred of TTF font files and I just want to test them without having to install. Is there any text editor in Windows that allows to do so?
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mplayer/mencoder subtitle rendering thick, crude, unreadable
I installed the Slackware 13.37 package MPlayer-1.0rc4-i686-3sl.txz along with all of the available codecs, etc. I also have freetype-2.4.4-i486-1.txz installed for font rendering.
For my first dvd ...
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Why does chrome fonts not show as nice as other browsers
I'm running the latest versions of Chrome, IE and FF. In terms of readability Chrome does not perform well in this area. Any reasons why?
High res version
As the font get's smaller (as in the ...
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How do I make Vim beautiful (read: Textmate font/color ) on Mac OS X Lion?
I am just starting to make the Textmate to Vim switch. I love it, but it's so ugly.
I'm running Mac OS X Lion and needed Ruby support so I am using Vim 7.3 as installed via Homebrew not the Vim Lion ...
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Konsole font truncation - only with consolas
When I use Consolas (of any size) as my terminal font, any pixels which hang below the line (such as the tail of a y) get truncated. Look at the second line in the screenshot below. Notice that the ...
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Which windows font contains Georgian letters [closed]
when i write georgian text it seems no matter what font i use, the letters are taken from another font, since they always look the same.
which font is it that the letters are taken from?
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Uninstall / remove multiple fonts windows 7
I am having a ton of trouble trying to uninstall fonts in windows 7?
I keep getting errors:
Aharoni Bold cannot be deleted because it's in use
Every solution I have seen so far takes like 2 ...
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Is there a way to add/reassign characters in an existing font?
I'm using the font Jack Input, and its missing the curly braces, is there a way to edit it and reassign the curly braces to characters from another font?
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Ubuntu 10.04 displays interrface in Symbol font
My ubuntu 10.04 machine displays menu in Greek, instead of English for applications like: texworks, djview, ipe,virtualbox etc. For many other applications like xterm, matlab, openoffice etc the menu ...
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What is the system font used on OS X in things like dialog boxes and system preferences?
What is the system font used on OS X in things like dialog boxes and system preferences?
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Small font when typing new for all messages suddenly in Gmail on Ubuntu in Opera, can't change it
This seemed to happen out of the blue.
I have been using Opera for years.
I can't find anywhere in Gmail to change the default font that is used in Opera.
Ubuntu is Version 11
Opera is version 11.6
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Is there a font switcher on Windows
What I want to do is temporarily switch one particular font to another, and switch it back afterwards. This will allow me to see a desired font in any games or softwares. I am wondering if thing like ...
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How to restore the correct fonts for Windows 7?
After I tried FontExplorer X Pro, all the fonts across my system are displaying incorrectly (as shown below). How can I correct the fonts to display Chinese again?
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How can I set the default font for gvim on Windows?
I use gvim on Windows. By default it uses the Fixedsys font, but I would like to use Consolas as the default font instead.
I tried to set it using the menu option; it worked but it was reset the next ...
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Fonts saved in Keynote are changed to Lucida when sharing the file
We are using Keynote in our office. When we create a file and then share it with someone via email or our server, the font changes to Lucida, so all formatting the first person did in our company font ...
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Change font color while typing on OS X
Is there a way to type in color on a Mac? Or is there an app that can do this?
For example, if I'm typing in a document or an email, I'd like to change the color.
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Why do all my browsers default to the “Impact” font?
I've been struggling with a font issue which I hope you can help resolve. A few weeks ago I started seeing "Impact" as the default font on lots of webpages, rendering much of the content illegible.
I ...
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Kerning bug with Verdana in Firefox and Chrome at 15 pixels
I asked this question originally on stackoverflow, but it was suggested that it would be more relevant here:
I noticed a kerning issue with Verdana at 15 pixels in Firefox and Chrome on Windows. In ...
