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Text corruption?
Help!
Using Google Earth, my text is badly corrupted. Not in the graphics (map) area, but in the 'text' areas. Here is a screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/GE-TextProblem.jpg I've checked a few other applications but this seems to be confined to GE. However, unless I'm imagining it, all text (including this that I'm typing) seems a little washed out, not quite as BLACK as I recall. Also, I'm suddenly seeing some odd vertical 'separator' characters appearing intermittently in text after I paste it in here (like my specs below.) It then disappears. This is a Quad Core Q9450 2.66 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 667 MHz, 512 MB nVIDIA GeoForce 8800GT Any ideas anyone please? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Text corruption?
Please tell us the make and model of your monitor and its settings
Do you have cleartype turned on?? peter -- If you find a posting or message from me offensive,inappropriate or disruptive,please ignore it. If you dont know how to ignore a posting complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate :-) "Terry Pinnell" wrote in message ... Help! Using Google Earth, my text is badly corrupted. Not in the graphics (map) area, but in the 'text' areas. Here is a screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/GE-TextProblem.jpg I've checked a few other applications but this seems to be confined to GE. However, unless I'm imagining it, all text (including this that I'm typing) seems a little washed out, not quite as BLACK as I recall. Also, I'm suddenly seeing some odd vertical 'separator' characters appearing intermittently in text after I paste it in here (like my specs below.) It then disappears. This is a Quad Core Q9450 2.66 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 667 MHz, 512 MB nVIDIA GeoForce 8800GT Any ideas anyone please? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Text corruption?
It looks like someone has altered the settings for cleartype.
len "Terry Pinnell" wrote in message ... Help! Using Google Earth, my text is badly corrupted. Not in the graphics (map) area, but in the 'text' areas. Here is a screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/GE-TextProblem.jpg I've checked a few other applications but this seems to be confined to GE. However, unless I'm imagining it, all text (including this that I'm typing) seems a little washed out, not quite as BLACK as I recall. Also, I'm suddenly seeing some odd vertical 'separator' characters appearing intermittently in text after I paste it in here (like my specs below.) It then disappears. This is a Quad Core Q9450 2.66 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 667 MHz, 512 MB nVIDIA GeoForce 8800GT Any ideas anyone please? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Text corruption?
"Len Hickman" wrote:
It looks like someone has altered the settings for cleartype. len "Terry Pinnell" wrote in message .. . Help! Using Google Earth, my text is badly corrupted. Not in the graphics (map) area, but in the 'text' areas. Here is a screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/GE-TextProblem.jpg I've checked a few other applications but this seems to be confined to GE. However, unless I'm imagining it, all text (including this that I'm typing) seems a little washed out, not quite as BLACK as I recall. Also, I'm suddenly seeing some odd vertical 'separator' characters appearing intermittently in text after I paste it in here (like my specs below.) It then disappears. This is a Quad Core Q9450 2.66 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 667 MHz, 512 MB nVIDIA GeoForce 8800GT Any ideas anyone please? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK Len, Peter: Thanks both, appreciate the fast responses. Cleartype is enabled. And text elsewhere does seem OK. Reckon I was imagining it earlier. Further tests seem to show that this serious and strange problem is confined to the latest version of Google Earth, v 5.1.3533. I uninstalled it and installed GE 4.3.7284 and that is OK. Yet I've been running GE 5.1.3533 for some weeks and only today has this problem arisen. Could those vertical separators appearing in my text when composing messages in my email/newsreader program (Agent) or browser (Firefox) somehow be connected? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Do you happen to have anti-aliasing forced on in the nVidia control panel?
-- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Terry Pinnell" wrote in message ... Len, Peter: Thanks both, appreciate the fast responses. Cleartype is enabled. And text elsewhere does seem OK. Reckon I was imagining it earlier. Further tests seem to show that this serious and strange problem is confined to the latest version of Google Earth, v 5.1.3533. I uninstalled it and installed GE 4.3.7284 and that is OK. Yet I've been running GE 5.1.3533 for some weeks and only today has this problem arisen. Could those vertical separators appearing in my text when composing messages in my email/newsreader program (Agent) or browser (Firefox) somehow be connected? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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"First of One" wrote:
Do you happen to have anti-aliasing forced on in the nVidia control panel? Thanks, no, that's set to 'Allow application to handle', or words along those lines. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Text corruption?
Terry Pinnell wrote:
Could those vertical separators appearing in my text when composing messages in my email/newsreader program (Agent) or browser (Firefox) somehow be connected? From the Agent newsgroup, that turns out to be directly associated with Cleartype, although that particular long-standing bug is unique to Agent. Here's a screenshot for the curious: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/AgentTextProblem.jpg At present I'm still using the old version 4 of GE top which I reverted yesterday. That continues to display correctly. But I haven't yet tried re-installing GE version 5. BTW, I found and used the Microsoft Cleartype Tuner as a result of this research. Any other insights/suggestions would be appreciated please. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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