Have you actually seen the stack on his machine or are you assuming that the
font has been translated to Times New Roman. Scott could probably offer more
help but from my experience metacard doesn't cope with fonts not being there
very well. Chances are that your fonts have been replaced with Arial which
is the default if Helvetica is not available (usually the case on Windows)
and the font you set isn't available. One of the most frustrating things is
that if your font isn't available the font size also defaults to 14 point.
What looked nice now looks crap.
The only real way around this is to have your own font management scripts
and also to use very common fonts. You've got the common font you just need
to set the fonts of your objects on startup to whichever is available.
> I have a client running on Windows 98 machines where the fonts in a
> stack are not displaying right. The only font used in the stack (which
> was developed on a Mac) is Times, which I guess gets translated to Times
> Roman on Windows. On his Windows machines, text is much larger, which
> causes line wrapping and some text to disappear below the bottom of the
> visible area of the fields. Button labels are wrong, with text
> disappearing off the edges of the buttons. Field margins are very
> narrow, with text butted up against the very left-hand edge even though
> the margins are set to 8.
>
> I have had him check to make sure that Times is installed on the Windows
> machines, and that "large fonts" is not turned on -- it isn't. What else
> could cause this? It doesn't happen on my Windows 98 machine.
>
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