I was experiencing some page rendering errors with IE10 on a new Windows 8 system, such as:
Blank pages:
http://validator.w3.org/
http://wordpress.org/
http://app.ecwid.com/jsp/1218004/simple-store
No bullet points:
http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/
After some deep investigation ([URL="detailed here) I determined that the problems were being caused by fonts I'd installed.
Unfortunately, I don't know *which* of the 1500+ fonts are the source of the problem, and once those font files are copied into WindowsFonts,
there doesn't seem to be any way to roll back font installations other than a system restore. Removing the font files from the folder doesn't help, the issues remain with IE10.
From what I've read online, installing fonts is just a matter of copying font files to WindowsFonts. Is this correct? How to uninstall fonts? (I can't find any Windows 8 related help info on the MS website.)
When copying over my font files into WindowsFonts, there's a notice about incompatible .PFB files... I simply selected "skip" for all of these, so I'm assuming they're not the problem. Also, I didn't overwrite any existing fonts--I selected "skip"
for any duplicates. The other font files are Type 1, TrueType, and OpenType. Shouldn't these be OK to install?
I'm looking for:
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Blank pages:
http://validator.w3.org/
http://wordpress.org/
http://app.ecwid.com/jsp/1218004/simple-store
No bullet points:
http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/
After some deep investigation ([URL="detailed here) I determined that the problems were being caused by fonts I'd installed.
Unfortunately, I don't know *which* of the 1500+ fonts are the source of the problem, and once those font files are copied into WindowsFonts,
there doesn't seem to be any way to roll back font installations other than a system restore. Removing the font files from the folder doesn't help, the issues remain with IE10.
From what I've read online, installing fonts is just a matter of copying font files to WindowsFonts. Is this correct? How to uninstall fonts? (I can't find any Windows 8 related help info on the MS website.)
When copying over my font files into WindowsFonts, there's a notice about incompatible .PFB files... I simply selected "skip" for all of these, so I'm assuming they're not the problem. Also, I didn't overwrite any existing fonts--I selected "skip"
for any duplicates. The other font files are Type 1, TrueType, and OpenType. Shouldn't these be OK to install?
I'm looking for:
- Suggestions about how to proceed with installing my fonts so that IE10 doesn't get screwed up
- And, information about how to uninstall fonts without having to do a system restore.
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