Kerry,
As you've seen, it's dangerous to relay on something that is "on every
machine". Even something as seemingly reliable as a system font may not
be there, may be corrupt, etc. The only fixed-width font that I know of,
that is reasonably reliable, is Courier, which you don't want to use. I
think the only totally safe thing is to embed the font, even with the
many problems that presents.
(This post hardly even seems useful enough to have written.)
Rich
On 3/20/01 3:34 PM, Kerry Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) sent:
>I've run into an interesting problem. We've developed a game, Windows only,
>that uses the Windows FixedSys font. On some machines, the text gets
>truncated.
>
>I think I know the problem, but I'm not sure of the solution. Apparently
>FixedSys doesn't scale, and if the user doesn't have the right size
>installed, it will default to the closest match.
>
>We did this because we specifically wanted a font that would be available
>on all Windows systems, and we don't want to embed the font.
>
>So... what's the workaround? Is there another fixed-width sans serif font
>that ships with Windows? (Courier looks really lousy for this application.)
>Should we even be using FixedSys? I argued against it in the design,
>because I believed it was there for system use, not for program use--it
>doesn't even show up as an available font in programs like Word or WordPad.
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