Hi people I have been experimenting on the fonts
problems that you all been having with IE5 who have installed it and then noticed corrupt fonts
after this install from IE4 you don't have to remove IE5 so that you see proper fonts in the panels this is what you have to do.

1) once you have installed IE5 reboot the system

2) here you will notice the bad fonts in your panels in ProntoEdit.

3) de-install ProntoEdit.

4) goto you controlpanels and remove the following
fonts.

- impact font
- verdana bold
- comic sans ms bold

they get install by IE5 with the core fonts update

5) reboot the system

6) re-install ProntoEdit

And your done
reboot

this has worked for me when upgrading from IE4 to
IE5

good luck :)

I tried this, but it didn't fix things. Oh well.

--John

Please check my response in the "Direction Arrows" thread. Downloading the Y2K windows update has solved this problem for me. Could be worth a try.

Mark Seaton

This fix worked great...remember to remove ALL the fonts that begin with the above labels not just the first one in the series..

Gee -- I just installed the ProntoEditor and everything looked fine. No font problems at all. What did I do wrong? Is it possible that some of you just ran out of Font space in your OS? (I am running NT w/ font manager installed.)

Didn't help me either, I removed all fonts and updated my pc to all y2k updates. Do we know if Phillips is looking into this or do they not care?
It seems like such a big problem with their software you'd think that they'd have a fix out for it.

No one has said which operating system the first fix works for - 95, 98 or NT.

As far as I can tell, the Y2K update is only for Win 95.

As for Phillips fixing it, I would imagine this is a hard one for them. I am a programmer, and if this happened to something I wrote, I would be very hard pressed to find a solution.

win98 I must be lucky this is the first fix ever that went as planned:)

I have just started a new thread with a better fix for the problem - upgrade to IE5.01.

Hi ppl I see opps I forgot to mention this works
on Win98 & WIn98SE I'm sorry about that but i did this when I was supposed to be sleeping. :)

Well Also have noticed that it does not work on all systems I did it first on a Win98 and it worked then I also did on a Win98SE which also worked out fine WIth no other updates to the system this was a freash install on two diffrent
systems going from IE4 and upgrading to IE5 and only then have corrupt fonts then i did the following on top from my first post. I don't know why yet it only works on some systems will have to do more digging will post more when I find it.

Sorry about that was trying to help out. :)

Eh? Can someone explain what the shouting is about? I've installed ProntoEdit on NT 4.0 SP5 (my desktop), Win95 (my wife's laptop) and Win98 2nd Edition (my laptop) and ALL of them have IE5 on it. I've -never- seen any font weirdness.

Brian: Then you're very fortunante! Only a small number of people have no problems.

Brian, if you are not seeing it, it is probably because you haven't done anything to notice it.

To see the problem:

- create a button and assign it a name that uses characters from the Pronto symbol font
- create a new button and then try to create an alias based on the first button you created: the name of the button in the pull down list should come up using the wrong symbol font

Oh... -that- problem! Yes, of course I've seen that problem a lot. And you're right, the IE5.01 fixes it. I guess I never associated that problem with "font weirdness" but knowing what the problem was definitely tells me I was in the ozone! I have seen this problem on all of my systems.

No need to do the whole IE 5.01 install. Just go to windows update site and do the "additional WEB fonts" install. Only about 700K and it has fixed all of my Win98 machines. HTH - Carl