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Apr 12.2005

Hi!

I hope this is the right forum to post this, since I’m not entirely sure that it’s a CSS-related-bug, but it’s my best guess…

When developing my page I mostly used Opera for previewing, and everything was fine there. Just recently, a friend of mine visited the site with IE 6 and discovered a funny bug…

My site uses a special handwriting font ([URL=http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts/s/Steve%20Regular.ttf]SteveHandwriting[/URL]). Now, on pages with not that much text everything works fine, but on long text pages, IE stops using the custom font in mid-sentence at some point and switches to Times, continues later with the custom font though.

If you want to try for yourself, the page is located [URL=http://oneoftwo.90megs.com/bug.html]here[/URL] (the CSS the page accesses is of course located [URL=http://oneoftwo.90megs.com/css.css]here[/URL])

I also made a screenshot of it:
[IMG]http://oneoftwo.90megs.com/bug.jpg[/IMG]

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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@FangApr 13.2005 — [I]SteveHandwriting[/I] is not a standard font, no-one else will see this font.

[URL=SteveHandwriting]Get any font you want[/URL]

btw [I]SteveHandwriting[/I] is difficult to read, I would not recommend it for large amounts of text.
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@OneOfTwoauthorApr 13.2005 — I know that no one who hasn't installed the font won't be able to see the page in the way I designed it, but my site is meant for a very small group of people anyways, and they all have this font. That it's not an easily readable font... well, yes, you are not the first one to complain ? I am looking for another font right now...

But I still want to know how to get rid of the bug without using a standard windows font (with Arial, Times etc. the bug doesn't seem to occur, only with fonts I myself installed).
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