Standardize Font Appearance

[J. Landman Gay]

I have an Android app that uses a custom font. I just dropped the ttf file 
into the Copy Files pane of standalone settings and issued "start using 
font file" in a preOpenStack handler. Seems to work fine. Easy too.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On August 30, 2022 7:39:19 PM Tom Glod via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> THe only way to do this is to use google's web fonts and ship them with
> your project. It works well.
> To save you the trouble, Android requires the fonts to be in a "fonts"
> folder in the root folder of your projects.
> Or at least its what I read somewhere in the forums.
>
> Cheers Bob
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 7:21 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> Hmmm spoke to soon. I see Start Using Font in the dictionary. I'll explore.
>>
>> Bob S
>>
>>
>> On Aug 30, 2022, at 16:12 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I'm at the point now where I want to clean up the appearance of all my
>> projects across all platforms. For instance, I have a Time Calculator stack
>> that calculates total time for any number of start/stop/lunch entries. I
>> have heretofore left my field and label fonts at the default, which for
>> MacOS is <whateveritis>. But when I create a standalone for Windows, the
>> size of that text is larger, and so any labels I have overflow the label
>> and only show me part of the text.
>>
>> What I want to do is set up my environment so that whatever font I use in
>> the MacOS uses, there is an identical font on the Windows side as well. I
>> know there is a way to embed fonts in a project, but I don't really
>> understand how that works.
>>
>> If I use a font that exists in both Mac and Windows, a common web font for
>> instance, they do not look at all the same on both platforms. Verdana is a
>> good example. I am not averse to purchasing a font family or two and
>> statically setting my font, size and style for every object, so long as the
>> Windows and MacOS look (reasonably) the same.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Bob S
>>
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