button width on different platforms

[Richmond Mathewson]

Um, well, yes: but whether the operating system that your end-user is 
going to play with your font
the same way as your operating system plays with it is another potential 
pitfall.

Certainly I am wondering what Windows 10 is going to do with the latest 
version of my Devawriter
when I hive off a Windows standalone from LC 8.1.2:

with LC 4.5 Windows 8 really behaved extremely badly with my Devawriter 
font
(which behaved "as it should" on Macintosh, Linux and Windows XP, Vista 
and "7").

This was not because Devawriter went "shopping" for some font it could 
find on the end-user's system,
and, as far as I can tell it had little or nothing to do with LiveCode: 
but just that Windows 8 seemed to
screw up with non-standard Unicode fonts.

Richmond.

On 1/4/17 11:28 pm, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 1/4/17 1:41 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>> I was under a vague impression that you could bundle font files with
>> the app (of course there may be licensing issues etc so this may not
>> be viable in every case). The trick at that point would be installing
>> the fonts.
>
> You can ship the app with a font included, and it isn't necessary to 
> install it. LC allows "start using font file <font.ttf>" and it just 
> works.
>