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Windows 10 doesn't reflect new emoji font from Windows 11

I downloaded the Windows 11 ISO and got the latest emoji font file (v1.35) from: sources\install.wim\1\Windows\Fonts\seguiemj.ttf Then since I couldn't replace the system font from within Windows as ...
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Strange vertical bars between characters on Xwindows

Some coworkers of mine are having trouble using an Xwindows application hosted on a RHEL9 box, where lots of small vertical bars appear on the screen seemingly randomly. Sometimes in a text entry area:...
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Text in Chrome showing up as garbled mojibake?

Today (May 25, 2023) in an existing Chrome session, all text on every site I checked started showing up as grabled mojibake. This persisted even after restarting Chrome and an update installing. For ...
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Does MS Exchange OWA support settings for how to render received plain text mails?

I needed to migrate my mail workflow from using an external mail client with POP3/IMAP/SMTP (The Bat!) to Exchange based OWA, which is web-based. I regularly receive plain text monitoring emails ...
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Characters at a certain horizontal position have "fat", "fuzzy" vertical strokes

I'm on Gnome 44.1, Arch Linux, haven't touched anything related to fonts since I've installed the system, and sometimes parts of the characters appear too fat, with "smearings"... the ...
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MS WORD: How to get the height occupied by a line of text in a specific font and font size?

I have encountered a typesetting problem that requires a format of 20pt Times New Roman font with one blank line above and below the text. I want to format it as a style, but to do this I need to ...
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why is windows 11 terminal with launch size of 256 x 80 is bigger than a command prompt at same launch size

Just updated to Win 11 and am dealing with the default terminal. I'd like to be able to use multiple tabs of command prompts (note: I use a console editor for writing my SAS code that wants a 256 x 80 ...
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Windows 10 font size remains at 100% despite DPI being set to 150%

As you can see on the screenshot below, despite DPI being at 150%, applications and desktop all have a tiny font, with the exception of the taskbar. Haven't done any changes at all, just started the ...
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How To Fix Windows Calculator Numbers Display?

When I open windows calculator it appears like this: If I changed to the dark theme everything seems OK. I have not changed Windows themes or display settings. I tried: 1- Resetting the Calc app. 2- ...
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Convert a PDF to greyscale on the command line *without* bit rasterization

Strongly related to Convert a PDF to greyscale on the command line in FLOSS? My go-to command has been gs \ -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \ -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 \ -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer \ -dBATCH \ -dNOPAUSE \...
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Folder's list view has different sized fonts in different folders

On my Mac, I view the contents of my finder windows using list view, as opposed to the icon/gallery/column views. I've was going through some folders just now, cycling back and forth between two of ...
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Is it possible to add a custom language to windows 10 using a font I have installed?

So this is a bit of an odd question, and potentially adding a custom language is not the best way to go about it. So please suggest any alternatives otherwise. But I have installed a runic font, of ...
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Heading 3 font size appearing slightly larger than Heading 1 and 2 of same size

Word 2016. Have lengthy experience (fighting) with multi-level lists. Recently Heading 3 is appearing slightly larger and bolder in the text and Table of Contents though the multi-level list settings ...
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What is the bug that makes fonts not work after a restart when not installed for all users? Is it fixable?

When installed for a single user, fonts disappear after a logoff. They are still in the registry and in the folder, but they aren't registered. Reinstalling them makes them work again. Why is that? Is ...
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How to increase font size for message list on macbook?

Thunderbird Version 102.10. How do I set the default font size for the messages list? I tried changing the config value for layout.css.devPixelsPerPx. But no change to the font size.
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PowerPoint export to pdf removes bold

I have an issue since I switched to the Open Sans font in my Power Point presentation. In PowerPoint it looks fine (correct font, correct bold). However when I export it to PDF the bold formatting is ...
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Combining Regular, Bold, and Italic Fonts in FontForge

I have a Regular font that does not support bold+italics. I also have the separate Bold+Italics fonts from that same family. Is it possible to use FontForge to combine all three into one font file ...
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The colours and fonts automatically changes on shared excel file

We use a shared document to import data. We have a lot of different colours and informations on it, which is really important it stays that way, it is updated 1000x per day between 30 people. However ...
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How to customize fonts in Chrome by Unicode block (or even Unicode character)?

On its default, Chrome chooses which fonts to use on its own and utterly ignores the fact the user has installed fonts that would support much more characters. For example, it ignores all CJKV ...
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Are there any fonts included with Windows 10 that only contain capital letters?

Are there any fonts that are included by default with Windows 10 that contain only capital letters? I have an ordering system that's essentially just a database containing dates descriptions and ...
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Is the dataset that underpins the Windows Character Map utility accessible somewhere on the system?

The Windows Character Map utility displays the glyphs available in the chosen font, along with the Unicode codepoint and a name for a selected character. Is the dataset that underpins this utility ...
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Fonts in LibreOfficePortable\Data\fonts are not used

Having installed the portable LibreOffice, I found the fonts folder with the file named add_fonts_here.txt. So I put some TrueType fonts in there and restarted LibreOffice. However the fonts are not ...
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Why many fonts don't work with ffmpeg subtitles?

I simply want to hardcode some subtitles. While standard fonts work well, when I search disk and apply others from Font catalog, they rarely works in this way: -vf "subtitles=subb.srt:fontsdir=...
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Flathub packages font doesn’t work on RHEL 9

I have installed many packages from Flathub on my PC (RHEL 9) but many of these (g4music, Amberol, Color Picker, etc.) can't be displayed properly. See next pictures: As you can see, these ...
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Missing some Unicode glyphs on Windows 7, is there way to fix/patch it?

I have an arrowsbe.txt file, with the following content (in hex): FE FF 00 41 00 42 00 43 2B A1 00 20 2B A2 You see, it is UTF-16BE encoded, with BOM at file start. There are two not-so-often seen ...
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Webfont rendering issue in Chromium browsers

My computer is running Windows 10 and for the last months I have encountered a problem I can't quite get hold of. In Chromium browsers (Chrome, Opera, Edge) some websites using webfonts get rendered ...
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How do I change Windows Lock/Login Screen fonts? What options do I have for resetting them?

Somehow, the font on the Windows Lock/Login screen changed, and I can no longer sign in to any user on that device because it simply resets to the Lock screen. My best guess on the specifics is that ...
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Can't change font, i3

I'm using i3 on ArchCraft. I previously successfully set my font to Terminus, now I want to change it to Google Sans. I tried: set font option in i3 config to "font pango:IBM Plex Mono Italic 10&...
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How to change the desktop icon font?

I am trying to change the font of the desktop icons. More specifically, I want to change it from Segoe UI to Rockwell Extra Bold. As far as I know, the only way to do it is in regedit, but the font ...
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Why does certain data imported from Word into Excel have yellow font, but not in Word?

Students fill out some tables in Word, and they must occasionally use a certain color font to get full credit. I'm using VBA to import their data and the color of their font from their submitted ...
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Edit font to vertically center glyphs

I would like to edit a web font to adjust the alignment so that capital letters and numbers are exactly vertically centered. All glyphs of that height should have the same number of pixels above and ...
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is there a way to enable Colored Emojis in windows file explorer

using emojis in windows file explorer (file and folder names for example) always show in black/white version of the emojis but i noticed that in windows 11 explorer tabs the colored emojis are ...
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Possible to enable additional fonts in Command Prompt without registry edits?

I have a (Windows-compatible) open-type font I would like to use in Command Prompt, Powershell, WSL, etc. I have installed it sucessfully and it shows up in other tools like Wordpad. However, it does ...
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Using tab to change font style

I have Word Doc I am working on and I have a heading with a style set up. I want the heading to have a time displayed at the end of the line with different formating so that the heading is in bold and ...
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Google Chrome fonts are messed up on some websites

I noticed recently the fonts used on some websites started to look worse. For example on vimeo https://vimeo.com/783454352: Is it possible this is caused by installing a font locally on my computer? ...
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How can I use the rand feature in a font?

I want to use the feature specified here in a similar way like the kern, liga or any other feature. I am completely new to fonts but currently using FontForge to import .fea into my font. Does this ...
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Randomly merge two fonts with variants

I want to achieve similar behavior Calligraphr has when building a font. The option is named "Randomize Characters" and needs different variants of characters for a font. The output is a ...
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Windows 10, 11, 2019, 2022 Resource Monitor DPI settings

After Windows 7/2008 i found, that new Windows on 4k monitors with 150% fonts scale makes old Windows app blurry, for most i found solution via '~ HIGHDPIAWARE' registry option (mmc.exe and all child ...
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Windows 10 - Fonts garbled in two applications

I am having an issue with text displaying wrongly in a couple of applications I use. Both are from the same manufacturer. This has only started happening in the last few days. I can't pinpoint ...
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Downloading and Installing fonts using powershell commands only

Im making a powershell script to install and initialize oh-my-posh on a windows 11 terminal. The problem im having is oh-my-posh requires a font called CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font (or other nerd font) ...
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Show Curated List of Fonts in Fonts Selection Dropdown for PowerPoint Application

We use just few curated list of Fonts family for our PowerPoint Presentations. But since their names are all over the place (due to alphabetic order), when I am selecting different fonts, it is always ...
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Missing Emoji in Emacs and Firefox

I've had this issue on Mojave, and it remains now that I upgraded to Big Sur with a clean install. Can't find anything about it on Google. All emoji are working just fine everywhere on my system, ...
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Solving the 20 year old "Microsoft Excel distorts images when printing" bug [closed]

There are many posts about this on the internet. Here are a few: [SU] Microsoft Excel -- Images distorted when printing Images distorted when previewing or printing from Excel - Microsoft Community ...
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Fonts are suddenly bolder in Firefox 109.0

Over the last few days I've noticed that the fonts rendered by Firefox are bolder than usual. This affects me both as a user, as the fonts are jarring and noticeably harder to read, and as a web ...
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Fonts in Windows 10 are too big, even though scaling is disabled

Today i did a presentation with my laptop connected to a projector, and after I disconnected it and reconnected it to my usual 1080p external monitor, I noticed that all the UI text in apps (Chrome, ...
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Math fonts not rendering in Chrome (macos)

Some math fonts are not rendering on my chrome browser (v.108) on macos 13.2, as shown in these screenshots (where they appear as squares). I suspect it somehow related to MathML or Mathjax, but I don'...
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Liguatures NOT SEEN in extended character maps show as last character

A font I purchased, Atziluth Script, does not show ligatures within font maps but fonts with ligatures seem to appear naturally in proper places (such as the end of a word) with apps like Micorosft ...
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macOS terminal corruption with larger font in Vim (the line I am editing is not the line being displayed!)

I'm experiencing terminal corruption on macOS in vim, but only with larger fonts. (FWIW, this also appears to happen on macOS when using vim ssh'ed into another machine.) This occurs as the text being ...
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How to setup fonts in order to display icons correctly?

I'm currently using iterms2 and am using Cascadia Code for both regular font & Non-ASCII Font. Things are working great as I'm able to see icons render correctly on iterm as shown below However, ...
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Adobe PDF Printer Settings: Windows sytem font list incomplet / not updated after font installation

Question: How can I get the Adope PDF printer to refresh / update this list? Do I have to reinstall Adobe Acrobat? I manually installed a few fonts to C:\Windows\Fonts, but they do not show up in the '...
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