RE: font problem
by Chuck Evans <Chucke(at)captura.com>
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Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:14:00 -0700 |
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"'adrian(at)gn.apc.org'" <adrian(at)gn.apc.org>, hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org |
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The plain fact is that many many many people do not have Myriad on their
machines at all. It's fine to specify Myriad as the first choice of your
font attribute (either using the font tag or by CSS), but the client should
understand that this will not force anybody to see that font.
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Chuck Evans
Web Marketing Manager
Captura Software, Inc.
(425) 424-1155
chucke(at)captura.com
http://www.captura.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Harris" <adrian(at)gn.apc.org>
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> I'm having some font face problems with a site:
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> http://www.gn.apc.org/design/room/
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> The client wants Myriad as the prefered font. I tried:
> <font face="Myriad, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif">
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> without sucess, but:
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> <font face="Myriad Roman, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif">
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> 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.)!
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