Cross Platform Font Question ?

[David Squance]

I'd recommend Arial.  It seems to me it looks pretty good in both systems.
Dave

>I have a stack that was put together on the mac. In the text fields
>Helvetica 14 has been used, and on the mac under OS X looks fine... but when
>it is run under windows Helvetica 14 looks awfully emaciated...
>
>Anyone have any ideas on what fonts are good for using in stacks that are to
>be used on more than the one platform ?
>
>thanks
>
>John Dixon