Cross platform fonts question

[Judy Perry]

Okay, Cubist, I'm gonna make plain my ignorance on the issue in hopes you
can help  me understand why ...

One cannot use, say, Trebuchet MS and Comic Sans MS (standard installs
on both PC and Macs I think) reasonably reliably.

These are kinda plain-vanilla types of fonts.  I'm aware that there
probably won't be complete crossplatform fidelity, but, on the whole,
shouldn't they work with remarkably little nudging?

My project used these, and they worked tolerably well on both platforms
until about half way through...

Judy

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 Cubist at aol.com wrote:

>    None of these questions are trivial. If you truly do not perceive the
> difficulty, I'd say that you either (a) are not well-informed on the issue, or (b)
> haven't invested sufficient thought in the issue, or (c) a combination of
> both.