Display font in Safari like it is in IE

Hi. I'm a new mac user. I'm wondering if there's any way to have websites display like you would see them in Internet Explorer or Netscape on a PC in regards to font. I've used macs before and never noticed that pages don't look like I'm use to i.e. the font looks to be a different font than what the page would normally use. Say for example when I go to hotmail or myspace. The pages just look off to me. They are readable and not neccesarily too small or anything but they don't look like what I consider to be "normal" font for that site. Thanks!
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Another thing to be aware of: text antialiasing is different in the Mac OS than in Windows. The difference bothers some people when they switch from Windows to the Mac OS. The Mac OS "smoothes" text much more than Windows.
You can change this behavior somewhat in System Preferences, Appearance, in the the "Font Smoothing" settings. Adjusting the setting labeled "Turn off font smoothing for text sizes _ and smaller" might make things a little closer to what you're used to. However, you'll never get exactly the same text display on a Mac as you do on a PC, so to some extent it really is something you just have to get used to.

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Does this have to do with a conflict of another Helvetica with the System Helvetica dfont?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Actually I tacked on to this thread because the symtom was the same. I have very few fonts installed.
in Classic's /System Folder/Fonts:
- Chicago
- Courier (Type 1)
- Geneva
- Helvetica (Type 1)
- Symbol (Type 1)
- Verdana
In /Library/Fonts: None
In /System/Library/Fonts:
- Keyboard.dfont
- LastResort.dfont
- LucicaGrande.dfont
- Monaco.dfont
- Some Asian fonts
In ~/Library/Fonts
- MS PMincho.ttf
- MT Extra
- QuickBooks Fonts
- Monotype Sorts
- MS Gothic.ttf
- MS Mincho.ttf
- MS PGothic.ttf
Finally, via Suitcase, I have enabled:
- Arial
- Arial Narrow
- Times
- Times New Roman
- Courier New
But I've worked like this for a couple of years, with this small start-up set, then enabling what I need in Suitcase, as disabling fonts is key to my work, and I've not had this problem before, even when duplicates existed. I had some VPN and BlueTooth bugs I could not fix, so I backed up my system, reinstalled, and then had the font problem. (But VPN and BlueTooth work okay.)
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When I surf with Safari, specialy (www.thestar.com) I cannot display some fonts.
Thank you for your help.

I had a similar problem with Safari choosing an odd font that looked like Greek lettering or something similar. Then I ran into a tip to delete an Italicized font from my Fonts and the problem disappeared. Problem in, some action, possibly an upgrade has reinstalled the offending font. Is there a way to track down the offending font--I no longer remember what font was enabling the problem.

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Hello Flash, welcome to Apple discussions; )
Look for Helvetica Fractions and Times Phonetic Fonts, if you have them,
they can be the usual suspects.
Check the Text encoding in both Safari & FF, under the "View" menu.
In System preferences-> Personal (top section) in Appearance tab->
on the last portion of the panel Font smoothing Style: set that to Automatic
If those don't help, see this users tip excellent article Kurt Lang's ~ Font Management in Mac OS X
Look into this application to find any corrupt font[s]Font Finagler
Good luck, let us know how you fare.
Eme'~{)
edited by: Eme

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Has Mozilla changed the way Firefox displays @font-face enbeded fonts? The site I'm codeing works in Safari, Chrome, and IE, but Firefox 8.0.1 doesn't display the embeded font.

No problems here with the H1 headers.
Reload web page(s) and bypass the cache.
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* Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
* Press "Cmd + Shift + R" (MAC)

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In some web pages Safari displays an odd non-english font that looks like it could be some sort of eastern european or arabic or something. I assume there's something wrong with the fonts somewhere but I don't know why it would happen in some pages but not others.

Hi Firepod,
Perhaps Kurts font management will help look at this top.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=568008&tstart=0
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I've noticed that since version 7.0 (and in 8.0) FF is either hijacking on incorrectly displaying fonts on some sites, regardless of what is defined in the site's CSS.

version 7.0 (and in 8.0) : FF is either hijacking on incorrectly displaying fonts on some sites,''' regardless of what is defined in the site's CSS'''. Example: in Safari, the informationweek.com homepage '''always''' displays the fonts correctly. Recently, it's '''RARELY''' correct in FF, but occasionally it will "suddenly" displays right. The CSS has NOT changed. Multiple users are experiencing this issue, on multiple platforms (FF7, in windows)
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There are lots of CSS errors shown in the "Firefox/Tools > Web Developer > Error Console" (Shift+CtrL+J) on that website.
Can you attach a screenshot?
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot
Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot and make sure that you do not exceed the maximum file size (1 MB).
You can do a check for corrupted and duplicate fonts and other font issues:
*http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/multipleappsquit.html - Font Book 2.0 Help: Checking for damaged fonts
*http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/garbled_fonts_troubleshooting_guide.html

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First Quit Safari.
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Hi
I'm using a Macbook and using the latest version of Safari in it.
Of late, my fonts have changed. And even after changing them to my desired fonts (through Safari Preferences), I could not view the pages in Changed fonts.
For Example, my gmail account was getting displayed in Verdana. And now, its in some obscure font - which is not chosen in preferences. This is not getting changed even after changes made to Preferences. Also, there is no change in the Text Encoding.
I have tried the time tested method of removing Safari and reinstalling the same. Still, I'm facing the same problem.
Someone please help.

Hi and welcome to Apple Discussions....
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Carolyn

Tooltip display problems in Safari

I'm using Tooltips for and onscreen help. The page has a lot
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screen despite the x & y offsets.
Version 1.5: The page loads completely fine. I don't have the
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the top of the screen and not where they are supposed to.
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Any suggestions? Thanks and sorry for the long post.

quote:
Originally posted by:
Barascu Diana
Hi V1 Fusion,
so in your case most probably the issue is still there
because of the latest Tooltip issue we found.
Can you please save the file where you still reproduce the
problem and tested it again after the new Tooltip js file is pushed
on labs to see if the problem is still there?
Or if your page doesn't contain something private can you
give us a link to check it with the new js file?
Thank you,
Diana
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When i posted that reply i allready updated it with the
latest version of the SpryTooltip.js.
(current version in the lab is still 0.4, and my file version
is the same);
The url with a reproduction of the issue was allready posted
by me, but it might have been unclear. So here it is again.
I would say its becous of the offsetX: "8px",
offsetY:"-10px", that Safari doesnt get the top value passed true.
becouse the left position is fine, only the top is off.
I dont have any live html source checker for Safari, like
firebug for FF and web developertool bar for IE.
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feature. so ill try that o.o)
quote:
Originally posted by:
V1 Fusion
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