Why are fonts displaying in large sizes and/or bold?

Since upgrading to Firefox 4, I've noticed that on many (not all) websites, the font becomes abnormally large and bold. For example, in Yahoo mail, I can't tell unread e-mails from read ones because everything is in the same bold font. Any ideas?

Yay! At last, a working solution. Spot on: it's Arial and Helvetica that are giving trouble. And just in case: after disabling hardware acceleration, as indicated by Transpar3nt, don't forget you have to ''restart'' Firefox to enjoy the workaround!

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http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/adobe-creative-suite/498627-why-premiere-modifying-video-files .html
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/205/876064
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Why are my current dimensions supposedly 424x238 and output terrible?

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Thanks a lot Al for the reply.
I am more a photographer than a videographer and not that well acquainted with Final Cut.
I guess what I am struggling with is that to start with I dont understand why you need to setup anything for a sequence before you actually import stuff.
With photo editing software, your input stays the same until you start working on it and export / save it. I just don't understand why I need to tell FCE in sequence settings beforehand what I am pretending to edit. Why can't it just read the file as it is, a .mov with 2144*1424 resolution? I would find it more intuitive that only when you finished work and want to export you tell the program to use certain resolution, codec etc.
There is for sure a reason for that, but I dont know which one it is, and worse, I dont know how to change the sequence properties so it doesn't mess up my video resolution and colors.
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2. Easy Setup> A bunch of options and suboptions from PAL to NTSC to HD. I dont know at this point how changing anything here affects my importing of a .mov clip assembled with QuickTime Pro from a few thousand jpg images in 2144 resolution.
3. Right click on sequence > Settings: Here I can load different sequence presets, but again, I dont know which one to choose for the data I want to deal with. It doesnt speak about frame size or anything else I can relate to my original .mov video I want to edit and export.
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PD: I will keep posting about my trials and results .. In the meanwhile I hope anybody can give me some quick guidance, it would be really appreciated and a timesaver. Sorry for the long post.

Screwy font display issues under size 10 type (Mac/PC)

Given the nature of the problem, I think it's probably a Mac issue and not a PowerPoint or PC issue...
I'm working in PowerPoint on both the Mac and PC. Latest versions of PPT for both platforms, so I'm using the .pptx file format. I've got a footnote on my slides that started out as size 8 Arial. My Windows XP Pro box (SP3) displays this just fine in PowerPoint 2007. My MacBook Pro displays it just fine on PowerPoint 2008 and in Windows XP Pro (SP3) under XP in Parallels.
It does not display appropriately on my client's computers, all of which are Macs running Leopard (10.5.8) and PowerPoint 2008. It looks crunched and garbled on-screen, but it prints fine. Arial at larger sizes (10 +) displays and prints as expected. It seems to just be size 8 or smaller.
I read a MS MVP reply on a thread elsewhere that suggested that Arial for the PC and Arial for the Mac aren't really the same font (thank you, Microsoft). So, I tried changing to other fonts that are supposedly standard on both platforms. Trebuchet MS and Times New Roman also display the same problem. Anything size 8 or smaller has the same display error on my client's machines, which I cannot reproduce on my PC installations or my own MacBook Pro which also runs 10.5.8.
I can replicate the error on an older desktop Mac running 10.4.11, though.
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Why are images displayed in Photoshop different than the same images displayed in Indesign?

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Hi WA Veghe,
>First: DO synchronize, makes sure you have the same profile settings and color mange settings.
I don't seem to be able to synchronize between CS4 (Photoshop) and CS3 (Indesign).
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I can simulate Proof Colors (working CMYK), but not simulate Paper, both in Indesign and Photoshop.
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