Vista - No cleartype from remote text.

Before I think this is a bug, has anyone else noticed that text received from
other people in a conversation does not use cleartype, but text I send uses
cleartype in the conversation?

Greetings Peter,

The reason you're seeing this is because the contact in question is using a client which does
not comply to the Messenger protocol correctly. In other words, a third-party client
(Pidgin, Adium, Trillian, etc.) which isn't sending the correct font header in its messages
to you.

When no [correct] font header is sent, Messenger defaults to MS Sans Serif raster font which
is not capable of ClearType.

In some cases I've worked with my contacts to get a font selected which solves the issue or
Messenger Plus Live (www.msghelp.net) contains an 'Override Contact's Font' option which also
can assist here.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
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