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How to correctly reset Windows 7 screen DPI back to normal (Smaller 100%)?

Using the control panel Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Display (partly displayed in the screenshot below), I first changed the DPI from the "Smaller 100%" setting to the "Medium 125%" setting, ...
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How do I find out and add necessary extra fonts to wine?

I'm trying to use Balsamiq Mockups under Wine It kind of works. This is what it should look like (running on a Mac): Here's what it does look like (running under Wine on Arch Linux): (ignore the ...
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Re-enable squamous (zalgo) text in Firefox?

I have fond memories of 2009, with text bleeding into lines above and below. People continue to use those combining diacritics to this day, for dramatic effect, but I can no longer enjoy them. ...
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Japanese displays weirdly in chrome

When I use chrome, hiragana and katakana renders in this washed-out and thin font. I've checked the font settings and even downloaded the advanced font settings--where the non-kanji renders fine for ...
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How can I remove the pre-installed fonts in GIMP?

When using the text tool and fonts in GIMP the dropdown menu contains hundreds of pre-installed fonts (that I have never used). I have trouble finding the fonts I personally have installed because ...
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Cut-paste produces squares from a PDF created with GNU Ghostscript

A PDF from the net looks fine in Chrome or PDF reader/editor, viz: However, if I try to copy-paste that page, either to MS word or a text editor, this is what I get: I tried the suggestions of PDF ...
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Maintaining Chosen Font Style While Replying In-line

Frequently I need to respond to emails with bunch of inline comments. Say the email came written in TimesNewRoman-11, and my default font for composing emails is the same. If I use my default font, ...
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Microsoft Word font versions not compatible

My wife uses the Britannic Bold font to print some labels. She cannot print them on my computer because mine does not have the same font. She is using Word 2010, which has version 1.1 of the font, ...
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Weird font issue in IE and Chorme, but not Firefox, on certain websites

A few sites look really bad when viewed in IE. Can anyone tell what's the cause for this? This specific website uses a font called "Helevetica (Neue)" which we don't have on our systems but why does ...
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Windows 7: install True Type or Open Type font version?

Some fonts that I'm interested in using have both TrueType .ttf and OpenType .otf versions available. The fonts are commercial and high quality (there won't be any TTF simply renamed or re-wrapped as ...
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How to change font of all in-text citations in Word 2011?

I've got a large .doc file with 20+ citations. I now want to change the font of the in-text citations (so not the bibliography part at the end of the document). How do I do this fast and easy? I ...
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Can't Embed Arial/ArialMT to PDF from Word?

I have a Word document in Cambria which I converted to PDF. However, the PDF oddly had ArialMT font in its properties that was not embedded. Fiddling around a bit, I found that it was inserting ...
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How can I change terminal font size in i3 on arch linux?

I installed xorg, I can successfully startx and I installed i3 on arch linux. How can can I change, or more specifically; increase the size, in the default terminal in i3? From the i3wm documentation ...
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How to Reduce the Boldness Slightly for Cambria Font in Word?

I have a document where I use Cambria and would've preferred not to have used bold at all but I can't use caps so persistently in the following setup (font size is 10 throughout): Title: all-caps ...
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Can I import a single unicode character or unicode character set into MS Word 2010?

I am trying to paste a latin insular capital letter t (https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRfztxlipDzKUS0YjVKb0I2fHYJUTCZiwub5Cr5NAcAVvECsiwMZe-Oa9U) into a Word document - which is ...
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How to make all browsers on my Windows unable to display a certain language

I have windows desktop. I have Chrome (which I use the most often), Edge, Explorer, Firefox and so on. I tried deleting some fonts files but that didn't work. Maybe deleting fonts is not the ...
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Automate switching between "complex" font styles in Word

I'm writing learning journals for my school programming project, and I need to constantly switch between using Calibri, 12pt for my main text, and Courier, 11pt for the embedded code. First I was ...
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Is it possible that a specific browser does not support some unicode?

I wrote a HTML5/CSS/JS application which displays some text in Droid Sans (loaded directly from Google at page load). When developing under Windows, unicode characters are displayed correctly in ...
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How to set a global default font in mIRC?

According to the mIRC documentation, you can set the font on a per window basis. I would like to know if it's possible to set it globally, so that any new window that is opened will used that font ...
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Paste colors but not font in MS Word

I'm writing technical documentation for which I will need to copy a lot of code, often at a line per line rate like this: Some descriptional text var date = DateTime.Now(); Some descriptional text ...
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Default font - Windows 7 [duplicate]

I want to make Times New Roman the default font on my Windows 7 machine. I can find how to change fonts, but not how to set a default font. Does anyone know, please?
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Smooth edges option not working on Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2 while in remote session

Text displayed on the sceen is very hard to read because of the hard edges, but looking under Appearance Settings -> Effects the option to Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts is ...
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Does Word for Mac 2016 ensure stability of documents made by Windows PCs?

If I created a file in Word on a Windows PC with some fancy fonts, shadows etc. and then I were to edit some of the text in Word on a MAC, would the same original fancy fonts and shadows still remain ...
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Font missing while editing forms using Acrobat

I want to added some form in a PDF template using Acrobat, I'm not allow to modify that template. Since labels in that template are in a font called STXiHei, I want to make my forms the same. However ...
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How to get information on a .woff font file from the command line?

I'm looking for something like ImageMagick identify. I already know about fc-scan & otfinfo that work well for .otf fonts, but I couldn't find anything for WOFF files.
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How do I decrease the minimum font size in Sublime Text 3

If I use the Ctrl+ and Ctrl- key combinations I can lower my font size down to 8pt, even though if I edit my user preferences I can set this to whatever I like. Problem is once I do that, any use of ...
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Photoshop opacity different for text

In Adobe Photoshop CC (v2014.2.2) on Windows I create a layer with black pixels, and a text layer with black text. I place both above a white background, and set both to 30% opacity. The text layer ...
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Change Theme Font in Microsoft Word (Mac) 15

How does one change the Font associated with the Theme? I would rather not use Calibri.
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Printing Issues with Lato Font

There is another thread regarding a similar topic already, but I am still a little bit confused. "superuser.com/questions/901940/problems-printing-lato-font" (Cant post more than 2 links...) However, ...
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Increase size of windows 10 system font

Can't find a way to increase the Windows 10 system font size. Don't want to increase everything by reducing the monitor resolution. Most other font sizes can be changed, but I'm stuck with microscope ...
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Is there a Windows font that will let me use the default byobu prompt in putty?

Byobu uses MATHEMATICAL RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET (U+27EB, Pe) in its default prompt. I kinda like it! (You can see it in the video on this page: http://byobu.co/) The problem is that, while I can ...
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How do I clearly display small text?

The font is set to 5px and the characters are ~0.2cm tall as displayed on my monitor. I have an Acer H236HL 23" 1920x1080 display and my OS is Linux. Graphics card is a Radeon HD 4200. There's ...
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Why does "Helvetica Neue" render poorly on my Windows 7, latest version of Chrome

So here is a screenshot of how poor "Helvetica Neue" is rendering for me on my Windows 7 PC, Chrome Version 46.0.2490.86, a simple file HTML page, note the location bar URL in the image: And here is ...
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Non-latin letters shown bold in console when using ter-v16n font

I have to show various UTF-8 characters in my CentOS terminal and I'm playing with Terminus console fonts. If I'm using ter-u16n font I get properly drawn Cyrillic characters but available character ...
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OpenOffice / LibreOffice ugly font rendering

I'm using Calc to generate some graphs of data I have collected. But somehow the font looks increadibly ugly in all of LibreOffice. I'm using Noto Sans CJK JP Light in this chart but pretty much every ...
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Missing Cambria Math font in Windows 7

Somewhat similar to Missing Calibri fonts in Windows 8. I just uninstalled Office 2010 and installed Office 2016 and now all my equations show up as blank or with boxes instead of the proper symbols. ...
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How to change font on Kali Linux?

I am a Korean boy and I am not a English native speaker so my English could be wrong. Few hours ago, I installed latest version of Kali Linux distribution, I successfully installed. I do not have ...
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Issues with font and hyperlinks during Word to PDF

I have read several questions here but none of them helped me; most are from 4-5 years ago. I developed a word document using the Latin Modern font, which you can find in several places out there and ...
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Qt Creator Community - Font Config

I've downloaded and installed the QtCreator (OpenSource Community edition). It created a directory in my home called Qt. I've a big screen and must all the fonts set to bigger. All the Qt and Gtk ...
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A couple of questions on using the "Latin Modern Roman 12" font on MS Word

I'm working on a MS Word template for a MSc thesis, but I have a couple of problems with the "Latin Modern Roman 12" font, which I would like to use. First issue On my Mac, I've installed the font (...
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Make image sharp at lower resolutions?

I suspect there's not an answer for my issue after investigating for a while, but I figured I might as well ask anyway. I recently bought an Asus G751J (with a GeForce GTX 970M card, Windows 8.1), a ...
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Web fonts not rendered on Firefox

I'm on Firefox 42.0 and web fonts (icons) are not rendered for FontAwesome framework : or on Github : And many others websites.
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Phpstorm smooth fonts

I'm using Brackets 1.5 and Phpstorm 10.0 on Windows 10. In Phpstorm the fonts are not good and codes are hard to read. On the other hand, in brackets fonts are great. Apparently Brackets uses "...
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How do I quickly convert a block of text to an image in Open Office Writer?

I'm currently in a writing class doing short stories. As part of my story, I'm using custom fonts to represent specific languages. I'm writing everything with Open Office Writer, as I don't have MS ...
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"something prevented the text engine from being initialized." in Photoshop CS5 portable

I'm using a portable installation of Photoshop CS5 Extended. Two days ago I did some animated gifs with text on them. I have not been using Photoshop much recently, but I had also done some work on ...
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How to reset color in Microsoft Word linked style

I defined Heading 1 to Heading 9 styles so that Heading N is based on Heading N-1 with some extra style changes. This allows me to update the Heading styles consistently across all levels. However, ...
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Unicode fonts in terminal

How can I get unicode fonts in my terminal? Is there a package I could yum install to see more characters? I already have some of them working fine, e.g. 0x2603 snowman works, but others just give ...
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Ligatures broken on Firefox?

I just typed "stackoverflow.com" into the URL bar of Firefox (on Manjaro Linux), and saw this: With experimentation, I found that Firefox is replacing all sorts of ligatures with (seemingly) random ...
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Switch bold font in Urxvt at runtime

As seen in the man page, one can switch the font in Urxvt using: printf '\33]50;%s\007' "xft:Terminus:pixelsize=20" However, having the following line in ~/.Xdefaults will cause bold fonts to not ...
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Recover Windows 10 when login screen flickers and doesn't load

Recently a font installation on my Windows 10 system failed. This seemed to have messed up the system font, as on the next reboot, filenames and most UI menus appeared in hieroglyphs. I followed the ...
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