What happens if a font is not installed on the hosting OS?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Malte,

Looking at the nicely styled text field of the password stack* that I  
uploaded recently, the lay-out is completely destroyed if I move the  
stack from Mac to Windows XP. It was created on a Mac.

The textFont and textSize properties stay as they were, but the entire  
text displays in Tahoma 11. This is a bit confusing perhaps, since  
size 11 is not in Revolution's Text menu. What troubles me is that not  
only the font is displayed in Tahoma, but regardless of the text sizes  
I have used, the entire text is displayed at size 11.

"Not the same font for all fields..." I don't see that here. Which  
fonts do you get on Windows?

* Download the password stack from the developers section on the  
Economy-x-Talk homepage. Go to the homepage (see below), click on  
Developers on the left, then find the stack at the bottom of the page.

Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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On 28 feb 2008, at 08:52, Malte Brill wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am a bit puzzled here. I am experimenting with fonts and what  
> happens when a font is not installed on the hosting OS. I always  
> thought Rev would fall back to Tahoma on Windows and Lucida on a  
> Mac. However, when I created a stack (on the Mac), set different  
> text fonts I know are not installed on Windows, then saved and  
> launched it on the Winbox the text fields DO fall back to something,  
> however it does not seem to be the same font for all fields...
>
> Any ideas on that?
>
> All the best,
>
> Malte