Portable fonts and usage recommendations needed

[Dar Scott]

On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 10:42 AM, Dan Friedman wrote:

>> Are these exactly the same design for each platform or do these have 
>> to
>> be tweaked?  I don't mean file format, I mean variations in metrics to
>> account for engine or other idiosyncrasies.
>
> They are NOT the same for each platform (but they look the same).  The
> sizes, metrics and other data/settings have been altered so they look 
> and
> act the same on each platform.  For example, if you set a font to 9 
> point on
> a MAC, it will look larger on a PC.  With my custom fonts, 9 point is 
> the
> same size on both platforms.

Oh.

Is this alteration needed because of OS interpretation, because of 
Revolution engine interpretation, or because of both?  Anybody?

Dar Scott