Posted February 6, 201213 yr Hi, Internet Explorer won't render content if the first font specified in CSS is a Type 1 font (e.g. Helvetica) and the Type 1 font is installed on the machine browsing to the site. Uninstalling the particular font 'cures' the problem. Look at http://www.canbyherald.com for an example. There should be stories listed down the middle of the screen. If you have Type 1 Helvetica installed, though, you'll see white space there instead. We've cleaned up our own sites to prevent this problem from plaguing our readers but we have 325 internal computers being used by our own users. We're a publishing company and have tens of thousands of existing documents that use Type 1 fonts and are dependent on their specific typographical characteristics so we can't uninstall them and install Truetype or OTF versions of the fonts as a workaround. So far, our users have been calling us every time they hit a site that has this problem. We've contacted a number of the site owners to request they change the offending code but most are unequipped or unwilling to do so - telling us it works fine for them. I'm kind of at the end of my available troubleshooting time on this. If I can't find an solution in the next few days, we're going to change from using IE throughout our company to using Chrome. There are many reasons I want to avoid this change. Has anyone come up with a solution to this problem short of switching browsers? Continue reading...
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