Hi Scott, I've been a little backed up in my emails and so just read this and didn't see any responses. Just to clarify...
Scott Rossi wrote: > I poked through the mail archives a bit and found a few responses but > I'm > still curious: what do folks do to make text display similarly across > platforms? > > In the past, I always thought it was a simple matter to set the font > specs > of the card or stack and have fields inherit the settings, but it seems > in > all my 3/3.5 stacks this doesn't work any more. Rev seems to apply > formatting based on the platform on which the stack was saved, and then > promptly loses the specs when the stack is opened on another platform > (the > font/size properties read correctly, but the text doesn't display > correctly, > often shrinking down to some weird size/font). I assume by this you mean you are setting the textFont and textSize of the card in a preOpenCard script to a known existing platform specific font such as Tahoma for PC and Lucinda Grande for Mac? > Setting font specs of a field by script doesn't seem to do anything and > in > some cases compounds the problem since, for example, attempting to > change > the font or size of text will only change the textheight of field, > positioning the text improperly in the field. To change up text in a field, are you setting the HTMLText using something like <p><font=...> </font></p> or what exactly are you doing? > Because of the above, I wound up having to format the actual text > inside the > fields, as opposed to formatting the fields themselves. And the > formatting > doesn't stick unless there's text in the field so what does one do > here? I > wound up putting space characters in empty fields to hold the > formatting, > which is a pretty lousy solution. > > This is ridiculous: it shouldn't be this difficult to format text from > platform to platform. What's the secret? I haven't seen the problem in 3.0 or 3.5, but if you are setting the textFont and textSize of the CD and experiencing the problem in fields, I'll see if I can duplicate the issue. Aloha from Hawaii, Jim Bufalini _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
