Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > 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! > >
Nice. Are these similar to mscorefonts? Fortunately, this particular application doesn't necessarily allow the user to change fonts so if I can find a suitable font between both windows and linux, it shouldn't be that difficult maintain. I'm assuming anyway. The existing version of the application support multiple languages which has given a little practice in allocating enough room for textual display. -- Warm Regards, Lee "When my company started out, we were really, really, really, really small. Now...we're just really small." _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus