Cross Platform Fonts

[Brian Yennie]

Apologies if this has been covered before. Would one option be using  
image labels created at a higher resolution than export snapshot  
(which will get you screen resolution -- 72 DPI)?

For example, create your label in Photoshop (or any other tool of your  
choice) at 300 DPI. Then use that image as a label. When it prints,  
Rev should pick up the high res pixels.and print your label at 300 DPI  
which will look much better than 72.

Or is Rev not "smart" enough to print high res images? (Sorry, I  
hardly ever print from Rev)

File size would of course be larger, but for (grayscale?) small images  
shouldn't be much of an issue.

> That was Mark Schonewille who suggested Bit Stream Vera. Mark?
> Phil
>
>
> Ray Horsley wrote:
>> Phil,
>>
>> Thanks for these ideas.  I'm assuming by 'white space' you mean  
>> simply making fields larger (to one degree or another) than their  
>> formattedHeight and formattedWidth.
>>
>> Phil, if you're still following this, where do I locate additional  
>> fonts such as the Bit Stream Vera fonts you suggested so they're  
>> available inside my stand alone?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ray
>>
>>
>> On Aug 11, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
>>
>>> Two words, Ray: White Space!
>>>
>>> Well-placed white space can improve the user's grasp of on-screen  
>>> information while also letting your fields to be bigger than they  
>>> might otherwise need to be, to allow for slight metric differences  
>>> between similar fonts (or the same font on different platforms).
>>>
>>> Other issues can also come into play, like the slightly different  
>>> origin points of text in a field (distance from topLeft of field  
>>> to baseline of first char of text) on different platforms.
>>>
>>> If you need absolute consistency or control, it's really not  
>>> cheating if you decide to use screenshots of text for your  
>>> labeling of things. I've built entire applications on that premise.
>>>
>>> My apologies for not exactly answering your question, but maybe  
>>> this will help.
>>>
>>> Phil Davis
>>>
>>>
>>> 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