Re: font problem

My two cents is that a client should not be allowed to make a specification
like that because it is in no one's best interests.
A webmaster role is also to educate.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Harris" <adrian(at)gn.apc.org>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 12:26 PM
Subject: font problem


> Hi,
>
> I'm having some font face problems with a site:
>
> http://www.gn.apc.org/design/room/
>
> The client wants Myriad as the prefered font. I tried:
> <font face="Myriad, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif">
>
> without sucess, but:
>
> <font face="Myriad Roman, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif">
>
> works fine in NN 3 and IE 5, and I've checked in Browserola and all looks
> fine. But the client can't see it on their IE 4 browser. They claim have
> the font on the machine - but maybe they haven't! Is there somehing odd
> with the font name I'm missing? Anything obvious I'm doing wrong - Other
> than not using CSS (which I'm still getting to grips with.)!
>
> TIA
>
> Best wishes,
> Adrian Harris.
>
> http://www.gn.apc.org/design

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