On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:38:14 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: > On 2008/02/10 11:35 (GMT+1300) Michael Adams apparently typed: > > > In addition Microsoft released the Core font set to the public and > > though discontinued by Microsoft free distribution was allowed under > > the original licence. These font are still being distributed third > > party and have been installed on the Linux computers of those that > > know what they are doing. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web > > No distro I'm aware of installs them by default. There is no M$ > software available for Linux that will automatically install them as > on a Mac. As a result, you can't expect them to be installed on Linux. >
Agreed to a certain point. Mint may install the core font set by default. > > > The Result *Helvetica is fine to use as a font for Linux Systems*. > > > Apologies to the list for the way this has got OT, but i felt this > > needed addressing in the forum it was raised to prevent others > > taking Felix's information at face value. > > No need to take my word for it. See for yourself what can happen when > CSS specifies Helvetica on Linux: > http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/font-helvetica-linux-072.png > http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/font-helvetica-linux-096.png > http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/font-helvetica-linux-120.png > http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/font-helvetica-linux-144.png > http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/font-helvetica-linuxmdv2005-096.png > > All the above were shot on SUSE a couple years ago, but results were > essentially the same on other distros, including Fedora and Mandriva. > I went back as far as i could for this test (Mozilla1.6 on Mandrake10.0 circa 2004). http://www.comptutor.org/mytest/font-test-helvetica.html http://www.comptutor.org/mytest/images/mozilla-helvetica.png Looks to me like your test was possibly reverting to a default bitmap system font because Helvetica was not installed. So i've thrown in a font-family check indicating if it is installed. The Red H is always the same size in case your browser minimum size limits the lower end sizes. I had to cut my minimum from 14px to 6px for the test. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
