Tahoma Font

[Bob Sneidar]

It's been an assumption of mine that if planning for standalone application cross platform support, there are three approaches: 

1. ONLY use fonts common to all systems. This is fairly easy with Windows and Apple, but becomes problematic with other flavors. 
2. Create an installer that includes the truetype fonts you use, and install them via a shell. This of course may mean licensing the fonts you want to use, unless you choose public domain fonts. 
3. Script for the detected operating system and as Scott said, brute force it. This is just ugly, but is probably the most flexible way to go about it. 

my 2¢. Not saying anything new I suppose. I had an issue years ago where Microsoft had a font they used in Windows which Foxpro made much use of, and the app I developed for was built around it. I was porting a Mac version of the app, so I contacted Microsoft to see if I could get a copy of the font for use on Apples, and was willing to license it. They took the line that all parts of the Microsoft operating system were part and parcel of it, and would not allow me to obtain or use it under any circumstance, even though I was using Microsoft Foxpro for the Mac. 

Is it lawyers that make companies anal, or vis versa? 

Bob


On Jul 26, 2011, at 3:11 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 7/26/11 4:35 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>> I personally have been fighting a lot with cross platform font issues and
>> find it a chore.  When using stacks' non-default fonts/sizes, I've found no
>> other solution than to brute-force set these upon opening stacks.  Maybe
>> someone else knows the secrets for handling this better.
> 
> I do the same thing and it's a pain. I think this is something that profiles are supposed to be good for, but I haven't actually tried them.
> 
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