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    Posted on March 23, 2009 at 22:49 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Reader CG had trouble viewing this site a couple of weeks ago. Ends up that the Helvetica font he had on his PC (from a LaserJet driver installed eons ago) was taking over AskWoody, rendering it virtually illegible.

    Just got an update:

    Just accessed your site again with my notebook. Noticed the font had gone to hell again. Remembered that I have recently installed a LaserJet 2015 printer, and sure enough, those pesky HP versions of Helvetica had appeared again, even though there was no warning, no permission, But it must have been that because although the files are the same, they have later dates, in this case 17 June 2003, compared with 1 September 1998 of those I deleted. Deleted these again, and your site looks good again.

    Thought you should be aware, since there may be others who get caught with the same gotcha, and blame your site (as I mistakenly did).

    Fascinating. I remember Helvetica well – right up there with Univers. Funny it should come back to haunt me after all these years….

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