"Gary Smith" <bitbucket@example.com> wrote in message
news:Owh$wTY6FHA.2576@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>I do not have "ignore font styles" checked and do not have Copperplate
> Gothic Bold installed, All of the characters on that page display
> correctly for me. I did not get any prompts regarding font downloads.
> I'm using IE6 SP1 on Win2K.


Gary,

For some bizarre reason Font download is controlled in the Security
dialog. Change it to Prompt to allow the testing.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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Robert Aldwinckle <robald@techemail.com> wrote:
> "Gary Smith" <bitbucket@example.com> wrote in message
> news:Owh$wTY6FHA.2576@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >I do not have "ignore font styles" checked and do not have Copperplate
> > Gothic Bold installed, All of the characters on that page display
> > correctly for me. I did not get any prompts regarding font downloads.
> > I'm using IE6 SP1 on Win2K.

> For some bizarre reason Font download is controlled in the Security
> dialog. Change it to Prompt to allow the testing.

You're right -- it was set to Enable. When I set it to Prompt, I did get
the prompt. The interesting thing is that it makes no difference whether
I reply Yes or No. The page looks the same either way, and the reported
problem characters look fine. Does this mean that the font isn't being
downloaded even when I reply Yes?

--
Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio

"Gary Smith" <bitbucket@example.com> wrote in message
news:uZoD%237T7FHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl
....
>> For some bizarre reason Font download is controlled in the Security
>> dialog. Change it to Prompt to allow the testing.
>
> You're right -- it was set to Enable. When I set it to Prompt, I did get
> the prompt. The interesting thing is that it makes no difference whether
> I reply Yes or No. The page looks the same either way, and the reported
> problem characters look fine. Does this mean that the font isn't being
> downloaded even when I reply Yes?


Really? I haven't checked where all it is supposed to be used
but I see a definite difference in the menu links at the top?
(e.g. serif vs san serif?) For a particularly noticeable example,
look at the T in Travel.


Robert
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Robert Aldwinckle <robald@techemail.com> wrote:
> "Gary Smith" <bitbucket@example.com> wrote in message
> news:uZoD%237T7FHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl
> ...
> >> For some bizarre reason Font download is controlled in the Security
> >> dialog. Change it to Prompt to allow the testing.
> >
> > You're right -- it was set to Enable. When I set it to Prompt, I did get
> > the prompt. The interesting thing is that it makes no difference whether
> > I reply Yes or No. The page looks the same either way, and the reported
> > problem characters look fine. Does this mean that the font isn't being
> > downloaded even when I reply Yes?

> Really? I haven't checked where all it is supposed to be used
> but I see a definite difference in the menu links at the top?
> (e.g. serif vs san serif?) For a particularly noticeable example,
> look at the T in Travel.

The links are Bookman Old Style, which I have installed, so I woulsn't
expect those to change for me. The black text in the largest box is
Copperplate Gothic, which I don't have installed. The strange thing is
that whether I allow the font download or not, IE renders that text with
Times New Roman -- and so does Firefox. Perhaps Win2K doesn't support the
..eot files used on this page, or perhaps I have some setting that prevents
their use.

--
Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio

Follow-up to my own post -- new comments at bottom.

Gary Smith <bitbucket@example.com> wrote:
> Robert Aldwinckle <robald@techemail.com> wrote:
> > "Gary Smith" <bitbucket@example.com> wrote in message
> > news:uZoD%237T7FHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl
> > ...
> > >> For some bizarre reason Font download is controlled in the Security
> > >> dialog. Change it to Prompt to allow the testing.
> > >
> > > You're right -- it was set to Enable. When I set it to Prompt, I did get
> > > the prompt. The interesting thing is that it makes no difference whether
> > > I reply Yes or No. The page looks the same either way, and the reported
> > > problem characters look fine. Does this mean that the font isn't being
> > > downloaded even when I reply Yes?

> > Really? I haven't checked where all it is supposed to be used
> > but I see a definite difference in the menu links at the top?
> > (e.g. serif vs san serif?) For a particularly noticeable example,
> > look at the T in Travel.

> The links are Bookman Old Style, which I have installed, so I woulsn't
> expect those to change for me. The black text in the largest box is
> Copperplate Gothic, which I don't have installed. The strange thing is
> that whether I allow the font download or not, IE renders that text with
> Times New Roman -- and so does Firefox. Perhaps Win2K doesn't support the
> .eot files used on this page, or perhaps I have some setting that prevents
> their use.

Well, I stopped too soon. It turns out that the COPPERP0.EOT file that
gets downloaded isn't a font file at file, but a 5-byte text file
containing the word "hello". No wonder it has no effect on the rendering
of the page. The other two .eot files downloaded at least contain binary
data, although I can't tell whether they're actuallly font data.

Copperplate Gothic is a commercial font which lacks lowercase letters and
looks very much different from Times New Roman.

--
Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio