Cross-platform fonts...what is everyone else doing?

[Wouter]

	• 	From: Richard Gaskin
	• 	 Subject: Re: Cross-platform fonts...what is everyone else doing?
	• 	 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:47:41 -0700

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>  But there is no font named "0" installed, so what's it using? On my 
> system and those of my customers it renders using the system's default 
> font. You can only verify it visually, since the engine incorrectly 
> reports the effective textFont.
>
> Setting the textFont to empty is an entirely different thing, as it 
> clears the font settings and allows the engine to use its internal 
> default font, which is Helvetica.
>
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation

Ok I see now. On the Mac the difference between the look of these fonts 
is minimal.
One of those undocumented features for which there is no working 
function to retrieve the name :-)

Greetings,
WA