VB.NET web form font is messed up

I have an existing VB.NET web application solution (.sln project).

I changed my machine.

I loaded this old solution on my new machine in Visual STUDIO.NET.

The font on the webform gets messed up on my new machine. The font also looks bad when I run the web application on the web on my new machine.

I am using stylesheets on the webforms. Is there a setting in VISUAL STUDIO.NET, which will correct this problem?

The reason its messed up is because the font you used on your old machine is not installed on the new machine.

Thanks for the reply.

But, the font I am using is standard ARIAL font. It looks bigger and the text wraps because the size is bigger.

FYI, the display resolution on this new machine is bigger than my previous machine, 1280 X 1024. Do you think, this is affecting the display in VISUAL STUDIO.NET.

Hold down the ctrl button while scrolling your mouse wheel when viewing the page.... does that help? (Go to View->TextSize in IE to change your default instead of using the mouse wheel if you don't have one).

If it does, then you have to look into inserting into your stylesheet a 'fixed' size of font, that everyone will get, no matter what their font size is set to in their browser. I want to say that is one of these size types: pt, px, em .... but not sure. I haven't played with it much.

Hi all,

Thanks for your replies.

I found the problem. The problem was with the FONT SIZE setting on my Display. It was set to display 'Large Font Size'.

Control Panel->Display->Settings->Advanced->Font size....Set it to display 'Small font size'.


This fixed it.