Benevolence theme altered by XP SP3

meyerhandyside · Member · Sep 5, 2008 at 5:42 am
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My PC installed the XP SP3 upgrade and it somehow altered the font in my Benevolence theme. All headers went from Arial Black to Arial Black italic (which looks strange). I’ve done no edits to the original. Is there an easy fix? The CSS says Arial Black, no italic indicator. Does this ultimately effect how others see it?

http://mostexcellentdesign.com/
thesacredpath · Member · Sep 5, 2008 at 5:57 am
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I’m not seeing italic, I’m seeing just arial black. Mac Safari 3 and FF 3.
meyerhandyside · Member · Sep 5, 2008 at 6:04 am
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ok, so maybe just shows on pc’s with the XP Service Pack 3 installed.
thesacredpath · Member · Sep 5, 2008 at 6:06 am
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What browser are you using?
thesacredpath · Member · Sep 5, 2008 at 6:07 am
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Browser version also.
meyerhandyside · Member · Sep 5, 2008 at 6:09 am
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IE 7.0.5. Looks the same on Safari 3.1.2.
thesacredpath · Member · Sep 5, 2008 at 6:24 am
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I’m firing up XP SP3 on my lab laptop and will take a look.
thesacredpath · Member · Sep 5, 2008 at 6:32 am
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XP SP3 IE 7.0.5…, Safari 3.1.2, Firefox 2.0.0.16, and Google Chrome all show normal text for http://mostexcellentdesign.com/ . No italic in the post headers, sidebar titles or anywhere else.

It’s something specific with your browser and/or settings.
meyerhandyside · Member · Sep 5, 2008 at 6:40 am
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ok, thanks for checking. happened right after SP3 install on the laptop, and i found a few others in the forum who had the same deal. upgraded to ie 8 beta, same look.
thesacredpath · Member · Sep 5, 2008 at 6:53 am
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Did you try clearing the browser cache and then reloading the page?

The only other thing I can think of is if somehow arial black was deleted from your fonts folder somehow and it is substituting. You might check that.

Open Word or something and see if you can select and change text to arial black.
meyerhandyside · Member · Sep 5, 2008 at 6:54 am
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found this:

Arial Black font fix
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The problem is the newer version of the Arial Black font, replaced last year for some reason.

Grab the old version of Arial from C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$. Then go to control panel/fonts and remove the version that’s there.

Replace it with the old version and you should be all set.
thesacredpath · Member · Sep 5, 2008 at 7:02 am
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Ah-ha! Thanks for posting the solution. I’ll tag this thread up so that others with the same issue can find it.

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