Does someone have a short, fairly reliable, list of fonts that are likely to be found both on Mac and Windows machines? I suppose I could look at one of our windows machines here, but I am thinking someone of you has already been down this road and will already have a definitive list.I used to set textfonts to Geneva on Mac and MS Sans Serif (up to 17) and Arial (for higher) on Windows. Then to my dismay I discovered that on Windows XP the font MS Sans Serif has disappeared, or perhaps just changed name to Microsoft Sans Serif. This meant that I have to change the script lines of hundreds of programs (sigh!). I have now started using only VERDANA which is a distinct and nice font and has been found on both platforms for some years now. The textsize and textheight varies just a little from one platform to another. At least it's worth a try!
In particular I am looking for a cross-platform font that is a little prettier and more elegant that Arial, for use as a large display font where I am dynamically changing the text from a customProperty and don't want to make all those text displays as images in Photoshop ahead of time (too much work and too much data) In this context we don't have really tight size parameters we have to worry about as we will just give it plenty of room (unlike when making small buttons where the type size differences for the same font across platforms can be a headache.)
Signe Marie Sanne
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