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Sweet goodness, what happened to the fonts?

Posted on January 19th, 2007 – 10:14 AM
By Michael Rand

We’re not technologically savvy, but we’re hoping that by doing a new post in the standard font, with no cutting and pasting, everything will go back to normal and not appear in that silly microscopic print. Is Coyote some sort of virus?

6 Responses to "Sweet goodness, what happened to the fonts?"

Paul Paulos says:

January 19th, 2007 at 10:55 am

This is beyond me, but sometimes it’s a config thing where the fonts will mutate to fit the available column inches. If your tech guys aren’t already on it, once I just pulled out a number of paragraphs at random from a paper I was working on and the problem went away. Then I re-inserted the removed section and it worked, the fonts stayed normal. Might work…

Coyote says:

January 19th, 2007 at 11:12 am

Blaming the font trouble on me is like giving credit to Suzy Colber on winning Super Bowl III.

Paul Paulos says:

January 19th, 2007 at 11:45 am

It’s a computer glitch, coyote. Remember the Space Shuttle was just a glitch too “those O-rings should be just fine, hoss” …

Jon says:

January 19th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

If you’re composing in MS Word - which is famous for adding its own layer of sludge on top of your words - perhaps try copying into Notepad and pasting from there. That usually cleans some of the Word slime off of your printed thoughts.

Of course, I don’t know enough about how the posting system works, so I cannot guarantee success. Just a suggestion.

RandBall says:

January 19th, 2007 at 4:09 pm

Jon, that’s exactly what our blog expert has told me … I’ll give it a shot next week when the COW returns … Thanks.

Jon says:

January 19th, 2007 at 5:18 pm

I’m all about the tech support.