I am familiar with the differences in rendering web fonts in different browsers and / or OS. A few questions:
I use a web font (woff) that looks like crap in Chrome but in FF (on Windows 7). The other day, I used my office computer from home through a remote desktop. I noticed that the font now looks like crap in FF. It looked the same as in Chrome in the office. (I have not tested Chrome at home). I know that remote desktop somehow reduces the "graphics", but not quite so, and I don’t know how this could affect the rendering of fonts. When I arrived at the office the next day, the rendering in FF was still messed up. I think the changes in the remote desktop session to the "graphics" were still in effect. I checked with Chrome, and now the rendering in this browser looks great, like in FF before !!? Therefore, I restarted the computer in order to return my usual “graphic settings”, but that did not help.Then I cleared the font cache and restarted again. Now I will go back to the crappy Chrome rendering and OK FF rendering.
My questions:
What happens to the “graphics” in general and the font display, in particular, when I connect to the remote desktop (setting = 32-bit color depth)? My guess is that no matter what has changed, it gets both FF and Chrome to use a different rendering method than before.
How can there be an effect after restarting the computer. Is the "rendering result" somehow stored in the font cache, as it seems? Seems strange.
Thanks for any advice.
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