Big fonts and Italic type look pixelated

[Guillermo Scharffenorth]

Hello,

Not sure if this message goes in this forum. IE6 and all of its predecesors
running in Windows pixelate (ragged edge) either the display of large size
fonts or fonts in italics. As a matter of fact all browsers installed on
Windos OS (XP in my case, but apparently in all of its flavours) show the
same behaviour. This is not the case for IE6 (etc) and other browsers when
running on Macintosh OS.

Is there any way to create web pages that use large fonts or italics (not
converting to images, I mean) so that these don't display pixalated in
browsers running on Windows?

 

[C. A. Upsdell]

Hello,

Not sure if this message goes in this forum. IE6 and all of its
predecesors running in Windows pixelate (ragged edge) either the display
of large size fonts or fonts in italics. As a matter of fact all browsers
installed on Windos OS (XP in my case, but apparently in all of its
flavours) show the same behaviour. This is not the case for IE6 (etc) and
other browsers when running on Macintosh OS.

There is no IE6 for the Mac.

Is there any way to create web pages that use large fonts or italics (not
converting to images, I mean) so that these don't display pixalated in
browsers running on Windows?

Windows offers a font smoothing option. And XP has a ClearType option: see
Settings, Control Panel, ClearType Tuning.

 

[Gary Smith]

Displaying the pages is a Windows function. There's nothing you can do at
the server end.