- From: Frank Boumphrey <bckman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 22:15:31 -0400
- To: "Lourdes Jones" <lourdes@ljones.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
Lourdes, Good heavens, you're right! Thank you. And I always thought it was a "browser" thing! And for those interested here are the other substitutes (in win95) [FontSubstitutes] Helv=MS Sans Serif Tms Rmn=MS Serif Times=Times New Roman Helvetica=Arial MS Shell Dlg=MS Sans Serif Just to be doubly sure in Visual Basic I wrote the following deathless code fontname = "helvetica" Print fontname And when I compiled and ran : The result was "Arial" I love these lists, they expose the true depth of my ignorance every day! Frank Frank Boumphrey XML and style sheet info at Http://www.hypermedic.com/style/index.htm Author: - Professional Style Sheets for HTML and XML http://www.wrox.com -----Original Message----- From: Lourdes Jones <lourdes@ljones.com> To: <www-style@w3.org> Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 5:32 PM Subject: RE: fonts >Forgive me for interrupting: > >Frank Boumphrey wrote: >> You wont fint 'Helevetica ' on most PC's, i.e. 90% of the >> desktop's out >> there, although most browsers are smart enough to substitute Arial for >> Helvetica. > >Hopefully the browser does not have much to do with the substitution since >there is a system alias for that font name. Any program call to the system >for the Helvetica font should return Arial (or any other defined font >alias). > >Windows has aliased Helvetica to Arial since Windows 3.1 (that I can >confirm, my memory is uncertain about 3.0 though I believe it was present >there as well). Check your win.ini file for the font aliases defined on >your system under the heading [FontSubstitutes]. > >What this has to do with www-style I'm uncertain but it will hopefully show >that while Helvetica my not be installed on most Windows machines it is >indeed 'found' there. (Though I would always choose sans-serif as a >backup.) > >Lourdes > >
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