>We are beta testing our little MC "internet portal" site now with about 15
>users of both MACs and PCs in Ukraine, Singapore, India, USA, Canada and
>Malaysia.
>
>So far reports are good, surprisingly, no one is having any problems at all
>with the MC standalone and the download url technology. . .I expected a host
>of problems but everyone says it works great. . . but we are getting
>considerable variance on font matters, as expected.
>
>In particular I set up a page where little images were lined up with text in
>ARIAL font and the vertical alignment, vertical position of the images is
>supposed to be in line with the base line of the lines. nine image and nine
>lines in one colomn. But on a PC the text height value shrank considerably
>and the image and lines are all off. Image 1 and line 1 line up and then by
>the time you get to image six down the left column it is across from line 8
>in the list.
>
>OK, anyone have experience with this? Do you have a good solid working
>"cross platform font principle/formula" that we should adhere to to get
>things right on mac and PC? Does manually setting the font height make it
>match on all platforms?
>(Hello to Sivakatirswami and thanks for the two stacks you sent me.)
Working and being able to test on only 2 platforms (Mac and Windows
NT) I have found out that setting the textproperties manually both
for fields and buttons on each card is the only acceptable solution.
(I do not think the recommended Helvetica 14 is estetically nice
enough, and often is is not present on Windows). For each card I
supply the values for textfont, textsize,textstyle and textheight for
each control and on each platform. Then my scripting routines in 'on
preOpenCard' take care of making text in fields and buttons look
fairly nice. As to fonts I almost all the time stick to Geneva on
Mac, and MS Sans Serif or Arial (depending on which size I use) on
Windows (also Verdana, but I am not sure that will be present on all
Windows PC's.).
Regards
Signe Marie
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Romansk Institutt tel: +47 55 58 21 27
Oysteins gt. 1
5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html
Norway
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