design problem: fonts and spacing

[Charles Hartman]

It might well be just Palatino. I'm just finishing up recasting the  
examples (only) in Courier, and haven't seen a problem there.  
Palatino is probably not a good choice anyway (though it's my  
favorite font for many purposes) -- I see that my 24-point Palatino  
title on the top card of my stack comes out in default-size default- 
font (Arial?) print on Windows.

I assume that's because if a stack calls for a font that isn't  
available on the present system, a default font is substituted. Is  
that right?

That leads to another question: What fonts is it _safe_ to assume one  
will find on Mac, OSX, Windows? (Linux?) I know it's possible to ask  
in a script, but that doesn't help very much with the design problem,  
when something about the font is critical. Is there a list,  
somewhere, of (the presumably very few) fontnames that will always  
work everywhere?

Charles Hartman



On Jul 1, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> On 7/1/05 9:41 AM, "Charles Hartman" <charles.hartman at conncoll.edu>  
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> It is the case. It's the spaces, not the visible characters, whose
>> representation seems to depend on unknown (inaccessible?) contextual
>> factors.
>>
>
> Is it possible it's just Palatino? Or did you try other fonts?
>
> Just curious...
>
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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