That was Mark Schonewille who suggested Bit Stream Vera. Mark?
Phil
Ray Horsley wrote:
Phil,
Thanks for these ideas. I'm assuming by 'white space' you mean simply
making fields larger (to one degree or another) than their
formattedHeight and formattedWidth.
Phil, if you're still following this, where do I locate additional
fonts such as the Bit Stream Vera fonts you suggested so they're
available inside my stand alone?
Thanks,
Ray
On Aug 11, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
Two words, Ray: White Space!
Well-placed white space can improve the user's grasp of on-screen
information while also letting your fields to be bigger than they
might otherwise need to be, to allow for slight metric differences
between similar fonts (or the same font on different platforms).
Other issues can also come into play, like the slightly different
origin points of text in a field (distance from topLeft of field to
baseline of first char of text) on different platforms.
If you need absolute consistency or control, it's really not cheating
if you decide to use screenshots of text for your labeling of things.
I've built entire applications on that premise.
My apologies for not exactly answering your question, but maybe this
will help.
Phil Davis
Ray Horsley wrote:
Another basic question: What fonts are good for deploying stacks
cross platform? That is, fonts which will mostly likely NOT start
unexpected word wraps on Windows when there was no word wrapping on
Mac.
Thanks,
Ray Horsley
--
Phil Davis
PDS Labs
Professional Software Development
http://pdslabs.net
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