Is this page's text fully visible for you?

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Is this page's text fully visible for you?

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I emailed the authors about an apparent flaw on one of their web pages at
http://www.clovelly.co.uk/red-lion-hote ... restaurant

In both Firefox and Internet Explorer, the text is not fully displayed here:

> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/401 ... teFlaw.jpg

They responded promptly that they could not recreate with the following (their labels):
* Firefox 51
* Edge 38
* IE 11 and 10, 9 and 8 in emulation mode.
* Chrome 56
* Opera 43
* Safari 5 (Windows)
* Safari (Mac)

They suggest it's probably down to one of my plug-ins/add-ons. Before I pursue that I'd appreciate feedback on whether others can view the page properly please. I suspect they are right, as I've since found that I can do so on my iPad:

> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/401 ... onText.jpg

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Re: Is this page's text fully visible for you?

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Hi Terry,
Your page displays just fine here, with all the text visible.
This is with both Firefox v20 & v50....but,
the, Home/Visiting/History etc., etc., text links at the top of your 1st image & the text in the "Events", "News" etc., right column
are totally different to mine.
What do you have set for..."Allow pages to choose their own fonts..............?"
Mine is "Un-checked", but I use my preferred selection of fonts.

Cannot comment on your 2nd one.

Just try Firefox' Safe Mode?
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Re: Is this page's text fully visible for you?

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Thanks LIMPET, it is indeed a font issue! I'd never have thought of that (and presumably neither did the web author). I had Allow pages to choose their own fonts..............? checked.
On disabling it I get the full text, and with other significant changes too, perhaps now like yours?

> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/401 ... tFonts.jpg

I can't remember why I enabled it at some point. Maybe I'll find out when some other page now displays unexpectedly!
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Hi Terry,
Yep. Now it looks like it "should." ??

Anyway, glad to assist.

(Just a quick note though....Could you please reduce the image size/s to around, say, 600 x 500 or so, so as not to break the forum layout?)
(it saves us mods from having to do this... "Image tags removed to restore the forum layout.")

Thanks.

ps.
&....If you want an excellent, free photo/image resizer, go to...
> http://faststone.org
& install "Faststone Photo Resizer."
It has heaps of features.
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Re: Is this page's text fully visible for you?

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Interesting. In SM2.46 with Allow pages to choose their own fonts checked it displays just fine.

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RobertJ wrote:.
Interesting. In SM2.46 with Allow pages to choose their own fonts checked it displays just fine.

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Same here, looks OK on win10 with pref checked, which I believe is the actual 'default' setting for that pref.
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Renders fine for me letting the site use it's fonts. http://i.imgur.com/j2BsKYg.png

Main text was using the Verdana font. I notice in mine that the logo is higher up, even with the top navigation menu. Perhaps they changed something on the site?
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Just for a comparison...
Here's what I see...

Image

Not too much difference in the positioning of any headers/text etc., AFAICS.
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