ID: Q146888
The information in this article applies to:
When you use Microsoft Internet Explorer to view a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document that contains text formatted with the Courier New Bold font, the text may not appear as bold text. This problem occurs when you reduce the size of the font in Internet Explorer by clicking the Use Smaller Font button on the toolbar, or by clicking the View menu, pointing to Fonts, and then clicking Small or Smallest.
TrueType fonts are outline fonts, which use mathematical descriptions of characters as an outline consisting of a series of points. Most monitors must convert outline fonts to bitmap form using a process called "scan conversion," before displaying them on the screen. When the Courier New font is converted to bitmap form in this manner, it cannot be reliably displayed in bold at smaller sizes.
To work around this behavior, use either of the following methods.
To configure Internet Explorer to use a different fixed-width font, click Options on the View menu, click a font in the Fixed-Width Font box, and then click OK.
To increase the size of the font in Internet Explorer, click the Use Larger Font button on the toolbar, or click the View menu, point to Fonts, and then click Medium, Large, or Largest.
This behavior also occurs when the Courier New font is displayed at small point sizes in Microsoft WordPad or any other program. However, it occurs more frequently with Internet Explorer because Courier New is the default fixed-width font in Internet Explorer, and because the Use Smaller Font button in Internet Explorer can be used to reduce the size of the font to point sizes that cannot be displayed reliably. This behavior does not normally occur with WordPad because you cannot choose a point size smaller than 8 point in WordPad.
KBCategory: kbdisplay kbtool KBSubcategory: msiew31 win95 winttf msiew95 Additional query words: 95
Keywords : winttf win95 msiew95 msiew31
Version : 95 3.0 3.01 3.02a
Platform : WINDOWSLast Reviewed: August 29, 1997