Portable fonts and usage recommendations needed

[Dar Scott]

On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 06:11 PM, Mark Brownell wrote:

> On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 04:49  PM, Dar Scott wrote:
>
>> I have Courier New and Ariel on both my OS X and Windows XP.  They 
>> are not the same.
>
> Mac:"Arial" => Win:"Arial" 12=>10 14=>12 18=>14
>
> Win:"Arial" => Mac:"Arial" 10=>12 12=>14

I'm slowly catching on, Mark.

I can roughly get this right just by changing the size.  This will be 
great for the default sizes in fields.  The formatted characters won't 
get this, but that may be enough anyway.  I don't want to have to do 
htmlText transforms, but I might need to consider it.

Should I check on the availability of fonts?  If a font is not 
available will I get something weird?

Your table doesn't show a size change for Courier New, but I get a big 
change.

Maybe when the stack is opened I can try a bunch of fonts and sizes 
until formatedHeight and formatted Width of test strings look right.

Or, and this is what you said, Mark, I can run experiments that create 
the map I need.  If it is automatic my stack might look OK on exotic 
platforms or maybe go bananas.

Dar Scott