On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:52 AM, Brian Middleton wrote: > I have gotten two reports from users where they are seeing fonts that > have the font-weight: bold being displayed as bold, outlined text. For > an example of what I am talking about I have included a link to a user > screenshot of the issue.. > > http://centerweight.com/images/PowerMax_Ask_Jacob.jpg > > The page in question here is this one.. > > http://www.powermax.com/askjacob/2009/07/is-the-8-core-mac-pro-necessary-for-editing-hd-video/ > > I have not been able to reproduce this error and the first user that > reported it said they were using Safari 3.2.1 on a G5. > > The font family I am using is "Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans- > serif. > > Has anyone else run into this issue or have a clue to what might be > causing it?
The use has, in addition to the OS-installed version of Helvetica Neue, some (older) Type 1 version installed. For some reason, the OS treats the Type1/bold one with higher priority. Here is the bug report for Gecko browsers: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464731 There is a similar one for WebKit (don't know the URL) in addition to a report in Apple's database. According to the bugreport, Firefox 3.5 is immune to this. I suspect Safari 4 has this fixed as well since they implemented support for multiple font-weights. Can't test it, though - I don't have that font. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
