Cross Platform Fonts

[Mark Schonewille]

Ray,

You really should make your software such that it takes word wrapping  
into account. You want to use similar fonts for visual consistency  
across platforms, not to make sure that the last word of the second  
sentence is always on the third line of a field. If you need to be  
sure that the operating system doesn't slightly change the position of  
your text, then turn your text into a picture.

A font created particularly with cross-platform compatibility in mind  
is the Bitstream Vera font set, which you can download here <http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ 
 >. One of the great things about this font is that the license allows  
you to include the font with commercial software for distribution.

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Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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On 11 aug 2009, at 23:48, 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