Windows defaut font gets messed up

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Thu Apr 8 19:11:14 EDT 2004


Recently, "Dave Beck"  wrote:

> I have a potential customer who just reported to me that in my standalone
> rev app some of the text runs off the screen. He sent me a screen shot and
> basically what is happening is that all the text is being displayed in the
> wrong font. I have it set to the default font for Windows (MS Sans Serif I
> believe?), and on all computers I have tested it on the text shows up fine
> as it does on mine. But on his computer it shows up in a different font that
> is considerably bigger and the result is that many of the fields have text
> that runs beyond their bounds, all of the buttons look funny, and basically
> the whole app looks aweful.

Two things:

1) Your customer might have "Large Fonts" enabled in their Display control
panel.  You could have them verify and change if needed.

2) You might try using "Arial" or "Verdana" as your default font.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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