Sarah, Actually, both Mac and Windows use different dpi's for screen resolution. If you're on a 17" monitor and choose to view at 640 x 480 you get a rather low dpi (probably around 50 or so) but if you choose a 1024 x768 resolution you get a much higher dpi.
The difference in the fonts between the two is how the fonts are mapped from one system to the other. Indeed, you can perform the same script as you demonstrated if you wish to dynamically scale the fonts. It would be helpful if there was some documentation regarding how different fonts are mapped on the different platforms. For instance Windows Arial maps to Mac Helvetica (I suppose). I hope such documentation exists. -Chipp -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sarah Reichelt Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mac/Windows Fonts The main problem here is that Windows runs it's monitors at 100 dpi (I think) and Macs use 72 dpi, so the same size font (in pixels) looks differently sized on the different screens. As regards the font itself, I prefer fonts like Arial or Times which are common to both, but the size may need to be reset for each platform. If you use the stack's font, without specifying a separate font for each object, you can have an openStack script that has something like this: if the platform = "Win32" then set the textSize of this stack to 14 else if the platform = "MacOS" then set the textSize of this stack to 12 else -- do something else end if Cheers, Sarah > > Hi, > > Seeking suggestions re what combination of fonts work on both Mac and Windows. > So far I haven't been able to find a font that works in an application for > both MAC and Windows without making changes in one or the other. The changes > are mainly in size. > > Mac OS 9.2, Windows ME, Rev 1.1 > > Suggestions will be appreciated. > > Regards ... Bob > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
