Cross Platform Fonts

[Ray Horsley]

Mark,

Many thanks!  The snapshot is an excellent idea which I've used for  
various projects.  Unfortunately, it's not an option here since the  
end result is printing (and pictures of text can get pretty gritty  
when printed).  I'm checking out BitStream now.

Thanks again,

Ray Horsley
LinkIt! Software

On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Ray,
>
> You really should make your software such that it takes word  
> wrapping into account. You want to use similar fonts for visual  
> consistency across platforms, not to make sure that the last word of  
> the second sentence is always on the third line of a field. If you  
> need to be sure that the operating system doesn't slightly change  
> the position of your text, then turn your text into a picture.
>
> A font created particularly with cross-platform compatibility in  
> mind is the Bitstream Vera font set, which you can download here <http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ 
> >. One of the great things about this font is that the license  
> allows you to include the font with commercial software for  
> distribution.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille
>
> Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
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> On 11 aug 2009, at 23:48, Ray Horsley wrote:
>
>> Another basic question:  What fonts are good for deploying stacks  
>> cross platform?  That is, fonts which will mostly likely NOT start  
>> unexpected word wraps on Windows when there was no word wrapping on  
>> Mac.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ray Horsley
>
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