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How to change / configure font fallback?

Recently I re-installed Windows XP English, and after setting the locale to Japanese, and installing my favorite fonts, all Japanese text in the GUI became strange. The GUI font is Tahoma (default). ...
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Monaco font not appearing in PuTTY font list

I'm using PuTTY 0.60 under Windows XP. I recently downloaded and installed the Monaco font, and configured PuTTY to use it. However, after reboot, the Monaco font doesn't appears in PuTTYs font list; ...
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Fonts on Certain Web Pages jagged and blocky on XP yet fine in Windows7

This site for example: http://www.cultbox.co.uk/reviews/episodes/778-twenty-twelve-episode-3-review Which has this CSS - http://www.cultbox.co.uk/style.css body { text-align: center; font-...
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How to change the Windows XP console font?

I have been using Cleartype and Vista fonts on Windows XP for quite a while now. I love the Consolas font for working with source code. I would love to have it as the font of my Windows console (...
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Question Mark Replaced by É

This happens occasionally. Today it happened in a calendar item in outlook 2003. As you can see from the title here, the question mark is working here (Firefox). I am typing and suddenly the question ...
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Korean characters not appearing in Korean Windows XP computer

I am using a Korean software (with a partial English interface) in a Korean Version of Windows XP SP 3 However, in parts of the software, even when I change the interface to Korean, Korean letters ...
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5 answers
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What font does CMD.exe use by default for output in Windows XP?

This is mostly just curiosity. I'm not sure if it is Courier, Courier New, Lucida Console, or the like.
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4 answers
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Ugly font antialiasing

I have a problem with font antialiasing on a Windows XP PC. Example image (top half bad vs bottom half good taken on another XP box): I'm using normal antialiasing (I don't like ClearType). What ...
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What is the name of the this DOS font? Where and how to add it? Why is there a 1 pixel gap?

So basically I somehow stepped into this webpage: [removed because it now redirects to a reward survey site] And the first thing that hit me hard was the lovely DOS fonts, so naturally I wanted to ...
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1 answer
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Convert .fon to TTF or OTF

How can I convert a bitmap fonts (.fon) into TTF or OTF fonts? I don't need any of the features in vector fonts such as ClearType; I just want my bitmap font simply transformed into TTF or OTF format....
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Increasing font weight (making it bolder) in Firefox on Windows XP

My laptop screen got burned so I use an external monitor, but all fonts look very thin for some reason. How can I bolden-up fonts in Firefox? P.S. I didn't find any info that helps, most tricks ...
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Programs using an Asian font for context menus and title bars

The image here describes what I'm talking about. How can I change this font back to Segoe UI? Windows XP on this computer is in Chinese by the way. I tried regional and language settings and I tried ...
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Uneven and blurry fonts across the whole system in XP

In Windows XP, all fonts look 'uneven' and are a headache to read. The display is VGA (and LCD) and the resolution is 1280x768. The vertical lines on some characters vary in thickness and blurriness. ...
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Is there a simple way to organize fonts into folders and switch between them?

As a graphic designer, I have a large number of fonts installed on my PC (WIN XP SP3). I need the variety, but the many fonts slow my applications considerably. Is there a simple way to organize ...
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How to change the Font of Outlooks folder list?

Some Colleagues asked me how to change the font or font size of the Folders inside Outlook 2003 (Inbox, Sent Items and so on) I searched all the View-Options inside Outlook and changed "every" other ...
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Print a list of all fonts used in all documents in a directory

Suppose you have a directory which contains (perhaps in sub-directories) Word 2000 (.doc) files. Now I want to analyze which fonts are actually used by a specific user. So, how can I scan this ...
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How to install an AFM font on Windows XP?

Installing TTF fonts in Windows XP is easy (through Control Panel), but I was given an AFM font by a designer as part of the package he prepared to be viewed on Adobe Photoshop. Control Panel's ...
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Arial, Courier New and Times screen fonts suddenly fuzzy/unreadable

UPDATE: thanks to the Rubber Duck effect, I just stumbled upon this note. It is a known problem: if you have Windows XP and either manually or with some "hack" managed to download the Windows Update ...
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ugly font in XP, how can I restore it?

The XP SP3 workstation I used in workplace changed font rendering to ugly one in sudden(maybe after rebooting with chkdsk messages). How can I restore the font rendering setting back to normal? ...
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Photoshop not loading fonts correctly

I'm running Photoshop CS4 on WinXP and I have been sent a PSD as well as the needed fonts. I have installed all the fonts I got into the Windows fonts directory. When I open up the PSD in photoshop ...
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1 answer
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Using installed arabic fonts on Windows XP

I recently installed This arabic font package (for the coolness!) and I want to try writing with it but they show up as BOXES in Word 2007. Why? how can I make the glyphs show up properly?
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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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Windows default font messed up... but not everywhere

I'm on Windows XP. Some time ago, while trying out a number of different font management programs, something went wrong. I don't know what happened but now some applications, in some of their GUI ...
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What is with this 'numbers and letters in boxes' font?

What is with this 'numbers and letters in boxes' font? Am I missing some update? Running Windows XP sp3. I get whole pages of it if its in Japanese, but sometimes it's also here and there on English ...
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windows app fonts to small

I have an application that was written in for Windows 98 and it looks the same running under Win XP. I have now tried to run it under Win 8.1 and the fonts for the entry fields are to small. It looks ...
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Different font rendering in same computer

While I was writing some stuff here on Super User, I had to use my alternate guest account to write. I then noticed that the font that was present on the editing box and also in the '< code >' ...
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Font unusable in Lotus Notes

I use Lotus Notes 8.5 on Win7, and my colleagues use Lotus Notes 4.6 on XP. They use a font FangSong_GB2312 which comes with XP but not with Win7. To fix compatibility issues, I installed Lotus Notes ...
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Lucida font on command window not looking correct in regular size, okay when maximized

I rely on a DOS program for my writing. I just ran combofix and the window now looks like ansi.sys is not working with the Lucida font. Although when I maximize the window, everything looks fine. ...
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Set font background color to transparent on desktop

I've already done this: Control Panel / System / Advanced / Performance Tab / Settings Button and put a checkmark in: Use Drop Shadows for Icon Labels on But I still get a color in the font ...
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Unicode play icon ▶ present in a page title is incorrectly displayed in Chrome/Win XP x86

This happens in 2 different machines both running Chrome Versão 29.0.1547.57 m in Windows XP Pro SP3 x86: I've found to this question (Unicode play icon ▶ present in a page title is incorrectly ...

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