Adobe Gamma – web problem

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Wes Stebbins
Aug 7, 2004
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Has no one else experienced this problem?

I am working on upgrading a friends computer. He has PhotoShop, InDesign, etc. I took his computer home to upgrade it, and only took the "box" (no monitor or other peripherals) to my shop. I noticed while going to Microsoft’s Windows Update web site to get latest XP Pro upgrades) that the text was practically unreadable, yet other web sites appear to display jsut fine.

Then I learned about this Adobe Gamma thing – apparently it calibrates to a specific monitor. Could this be the problem I’m having when I hook his box up to my monitors (I’ve actually tried a couple different monitors of mine and it still doesn’t display the microsoft site very well)? Or when I take it back will it work fine with his monitor?

Or, by some quirk – is it a bad video card (but bench test show the video card should be just fine)?

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Jim
Aug 8, 2004
"Wes Stebbins" wrote in message
Has no one else experienced this problem?

I am working on upgrading a friends computer. He has PhotoShop, InDesign, etc. I took his computer home to upgrade it, and only took the "box" (no monitor or other peripherals) to my shop. I noticed while going to Microsoft’s Windows Update web site to get latest XP Pro upgrades) that
the
text was practically unreadable, yet other web sites appear to display
jsut
fine.

Then I learned about this Adobe Gamma thing – apparently it calibrates to
a
specific monitor. Could this be the problem I’m having when I hook his
box
up to my monitors (I’ve actually tried a couple different monitors of mine and it still doesn’t display the microsoft site very well)? Or when I
take
it back will it work fine with his monitor?
No, Adobe Gamma should not influence sharpness; it affects color rendition.

You can reset the monitor color profile to the one shipped with the computer just to see,
Jim
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Ed Light
Aug 9, 2004
Does Adobe Gamma produce monitor color profiles which you select in windows display settings / color management?
Or does it run actively setting the gamma some way?


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Wes Stebbins
Aug 9, 2004
Could it be that – when my friend installed his Adobe software – he has a printing company that is virtually all Adobe products – perhaps he installed some default fonts for his software that inadvertently removed/altered the default IE 6 fonts, etc.?

What can I do to check this? According to my defaults, etc., on all of MY other computers that work – I have:

in "IE6\Tools\Internet Options\General\Fonts"

Language script: Latin based

Web page font: Times New Roman

Plain text font: Courier New

Also,

in "IE6\Tools\Internet Options\Accessibility" everything is unchecked;

Also, in "IE6\Tools\Internet Options\Security\Custom Level." I have "Font Download – Enable" checked.

I need to check those fonts, etc. on my friends computer, but what if they’re the same? Are could it be something else? (even the motherboard?)

"Wes Stebbins" wrote in message
Has no one else experienced this problem?

I am working on upgrading a friends computer. He has PhotoShop, InDesign, etc. I took his computer home to upgrade it, and only took the "box" (no monitor or other peripherals) to my shop. I noticed while going to Microsoft’s Windows Update web site to get latest XP Pro upgrades) that
the
text was practically unreadable, yet other web sites appear to display
jsut
fine.

Then I learned about this Adobe Gamma thing – apparently it calibrates to
a
specific monitor. Could this be the problem I’m having when I hook his
box
up to my monitors (I’ve actually tried a couple different monitors of mine and it still doesn’t display the microsoft site very well)? Or when I
take
it back will it work fine with his monitor?

Or, by some quirk – is it a bad video card (but bench test show the video card should be just fine)?

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