Re: "Standard" Fonts

Stay away from MS Sans Serif. It's not true type and may cause display
problems. Stick with Arial.

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Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP
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Salt Lake City Fox User Group
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"Charlie Parker" <CharlieParker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks, Allan, That makes it pretty simple.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> "Allan" wrote:
>
>> Hi Charlie,
>>
>> A bare Windows box with no other applications installed like Office, and
>> other standard desktops applications, comes with default fonts:
>>
>> 1. MS Sans Serif
>> 2. Tahoma
>> 3. Times New Roman
>> 4. Arial
>>
>> Microsoft is using Tahoma for most of their applications... other fonts
>> are
>> installed by applications and printer drivers...
>>
>> Hope this will help...
>>
>> Allan
>>
>> "Charlie Parker" wrote:
>>
>> > I have a VFP 9.0 application that will be distributed commercially. My
>> > customer wants to use some unusual fonts on some of the screens. I
>> > have told
>> > them that these may not display correctly if the end user does not have
>> > that
>> > font installed.
>> >
>> > So the question of what fonts are "standard" on all computers came up.
>> >
>> > Is there a list somewhere that lists the fonts that come standard with
>> > the
>> > various operating systems?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Charlie Parker
>> >
>> >


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