On Friday, February 6, 2004, at 11:06 PM, Christopher Mitchell wrote:
Here are the results of a test with Arial.
Here are my results in raw form (mentioned here last year, I think):
Here is some raw data of the formattedHeight and formattedWidth of the word "Washington" in different fonts and sizes on two platforms.
It looks like the mapping may be different depending on whether you want to match area or line spacing. Or even line length.
OS X textSize textHeight Arial Helvetica Courier Courier New 8 10 10X40 9X40 9X50 10X50 9 12 12X48 12X48 12X50 12X50 10 13 13X55 13X54 13X60 13X60 11 14 14X57 13X57 13X70 14X70 12 16 16X65 14X65 14X70 16X70 13 17 17X68 16X68 16X80 17X80 14 18 18X75 17X75 17X80 18X80 15 20 20X77 18X77 18X90 20X90 16 21 21X85 20X85 20X100 21X100 17 22 22X88 21X88 21X100 22X100 18 24 24X95 22X95 22X110 24X110 19 25 25X103 24X103 24X110 25X110 20 26 26X105 25X105 25X120 26X120
Windows XP textSize textHeight Arial Helvetica Courier Courier New 8 10 9X39 ---- 13X80 8X50 9 12 10X40 ----- 13X80 8X50 10 13 10X49 ----- 13X80 10X50 11 14 12X55 ----- 13X80 10X60 12 16 14X66 ----- 13X80 14X70 13 17 14X66 ----- 13X80 14X70 14 18 16X69 ----- 16X90 14X80 15 20 17X78 ----- 16X90 16X80 16 21 18X87 ----- 16X90 17X100 17 22 18X87 ----- 20X120 18X100 18 24 21X95 ----- 20X120 20X110 19 25 24X102 ------ 20X120 21X130 20 26 24X111 ------ 20X120 22X130
So for Arial... OSX Windows XP 8 9 10 11 (except for height) 12 14 (except for width)
I'm told that is all in differences in the fonts on different platforms. Maybe so. There might be some idiosyncrasies in the engine, too.
If you limit your mix of fonts and sizes, there might be some tricks you can do to make these the same in more cases.
Dar Scott
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