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Problems with IE9 and Compatibility Mode

13 Oct

Specifically, when you receive an error in IE9 stating “A problem displaying {web address here} caused Internet Explorer to refresh the webpage using Compatibility View.” it most likely is related to you having the Helvetica font installed on your Windows machine.

Therefore your choices are:

  1. Uninstall Helvetica from your machine.
  2. Use an alternate browser.
Sorry gang. That’s all I’m aware that you can do right now. Also, if you’re making web pages, ensure that Helvetica is not the first font in the font-family CSS style or use an IE9-specific CSS file.
 
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Open Mac .pages File in Windows

16 Oct

My wife received a file the other night from one of our Mac friends ending in a .page extension. She the goes on to tell me she can’t open it on her Windows machine. After some quick searching, this is what I discovered:

  1. Make certain you can see File extensions in Windows Folder views (i.e. “filename.exe”, “file.pages”, etc).
  2. Add .zip to the end of the filename.
  3. Now double-click the file to open it.
  4. Search the file for Preview.pdf.
  5. Extract the PDF and you have the whole document.
 
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