On 12/04/2008, Lee Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This will be primarily simple texts such as button captions, etc. I just > want > to make sure that the fonts display as normally as possible on each platform.
You could use the DejaVu fonts. They are freely available on SourceForge and look pretty good. DejaVu is normally included with Linux distro and is very simple to install under Windows. It's a very small download and you can even ship it with your application. http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/ Alternatively, if the Windows users keep bitching that they actually need to install a font before using the program (I really can see the issue here... you have to install MS Office before you can use it!), then you can let the Linux users install the require fonts fonts. The Microsoft Core Web fonts are freely available. The Arial font is normally a nice looking GUI font as well. NOTE: Just remember that the sizes are also different between Linux and Windows! I'm still trying to find out why this is - some technical reason maybe?. eg: Arial-8 under Windows is roughly the same size as Arial-10 under Linux. Arial-8 under Linux will be very small! Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus