Re: Some Incredimail emails do not display the font correctly
>Beats me, it should be just the reverse, WITHOUT the font the text should be >fine. Well first of all Incredimail is a MESS. They may be using that font because of decorative letters for all I know. I may attack this later and post a follow up. :) -- Rick "Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths: without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: That what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open." -- Clive Bell - (1881-1964) - Source: Civilization, 1928 v5.3.2.10 (BETA) on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Using all POP accounts I download all images Current beta is 5.3.2.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Some Incredimail emails do not display the font correctly
IP>> Then I added that "if the font is NOT installed", the text renders correctly. IP>> Which makes it pretty obvious that in this case, some other font is used instead. > I installed the font and nothing showed. I unistalled and rebooted and > I am back to glyphs Beats me, it should be just the reverse, WITHOUT the font the text should be fine. IP>> Taking all this into account, a request for a "font substitution IP>> feature" looks somewhat... strange. > It can be done in Windows - there are instructions out there - I just > need to find the ones for the XP registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes The section goes back to as early as Windows 3.x (was a win.ini section). Its entries are like: ","="," or ""="" "Charset IDs" used here are discussed well at http://www.webcenter.ru/~kazarn/eng/fonts_ttf.htm#ttcharset . The number assignment convention is truly something. IP>> The most amazing thing, however, is that Stefan, an IT IP>> specialist, read it just the same way! IP>> Am I missing something or what? IP>> IP>> P.S. the language was actually Thaana, this was a typo on my part. > Yes, but it DOES supposedly display the western characters On my machine, it shows squares for the test pangram when double-clicked in the fonts folder. > This is a beta group, I just started having the issue with the last > beta. So I asked in here. I don't think that was at all out of line -- Best regards, Ivanmailto:v...@mail.mipt.ru 5.3.2.9 (BETA) on Windows XP Current beta is 5.3.2.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Some Incredimail emails do not display the font correctly
IP> IP> https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=122#c222 . IP> IP> Sometimes, I wonder if my peers *actually read* the comments they reply IP> to. IP> IP> I said that "the font hasn't glyphs for latin letters" (and everyone IP> knows that square is a placeholder glyph shown when a font IP> hasn't a glyph for a character). Uh .. ok - I assumed that saying it wasn't displaying correctly covered that IP> Then I added that "if the font is NOT installed", the text renders correctly. IP> Which makes it pretty obvious that in this case, some other font is used instead. I installed the font and nothing showed. I unistalled and rebooted and I am back to glyphs IP> Taking all this into account, a request for a "font substitution IP> feature" looks somewhat... strange. It can be done in Windows - there are instructions out there - I just need to find the ones for the XP registry IP> The most amazing thing, however, is that Stefan, an IT IP> specialist, read it just the same way! IP> Am I missing something or what? IP> IP> P.S. the language was actually Thaana, this was a typo on my part. Yes, but it DOES supposedly display the western characters This is a beta group, I just started having the issue with the last beta. So I asked in here. I don't think that was at all out of line -- Rick Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. - Sir Arthur Eddington v5.3.2.10 (BETA) on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Using all POP accounts I download all images Current beta is 5.3.2.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Some Incredimail emails do not display the font correctly
Title: Re: Some Incredimail emails do not display the font correctly https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=122#c222 . Sometimes, I wonder if my peers *actually read* the comments they reply to. I said that "the font hasn't glyphs for latin letters" (and everyone knows that square is a placeholder glyph shown when a font hasn't a glyph for a character). Then I added that "if the font is NOT installed", the text renders correctly. Which makes it pretty obvious that in this case, some other font is used instead. Taking all this into account, a request for a "font substitution feature" looks somewhat... strange. The most amazing thing, however, is that Stefan, an IT specialist, read it just the same way! Am I missing something or what? P.S. the language was actually Thaana, this was a typo on my part. -- Best regards, Ivan mailto:v...@mail.mipt.ru 5.3.2.9 (BETA) on Windows XP Current beta is 5.3.2.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Some Incredimail emails do not display the font correctly
>>It seems the fonts are not rendered correctly nor are they substituted. The >>mail reads correctly in the text viewer. File attached in bug tracker >>https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=122 > And before someone else says it YES Incredimail is a piece of crap. > However it has a following and the emails are not always interpreted > correctly The issue was resolved and it doesn't have anything to do with Incredimail or TB: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=122#c222 . -- Best regards, Ivanmailto:v...@mail.mipt.ru 5.3.2.9 (BETA) on Windows XP Current beta is 5.3.2.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Some Incredimail emails do not display the font correctly
>It seems the fonts are not rendered correctly nor are they substituted. The >mail reads correctly in the text viewer. File attached in bug tracker >https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=122 And before someone else says it YES Incredimail is a piece of crap. However it has a following and the emails are not always interpreted correctly -- Rick Dear Boyfriend, I can make your girlfriend scream louder than you can. Sincerely, Spiders v5.3.2.10 (BETA) on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Using all POP accounts I download all images Current beta is 5.3.2.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Some Incredimail emails do not display the font correctly
It seems the fonts are not rendered correctly nor are they substituted. The mail reads correctly in the text viewer. File attached in bug tracker https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=122 -- Rick If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney v5.3.2.10 (BETA) on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Using all POP accounts I download all images Current beta is 5.3.2.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
