On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:03, John Rigby wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:39, you manipulated electrons to produce:
> > You probably just need to change the font settings (font selection
> > & size) in Netscape and Konqueror. All the browsers should
> > implement the HTML properly (except maybe IE), but some browsers
> > will render the page on a smaller scale than others.
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:08, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
>
> ************** Yes, but using fancy fonts you are assuming that the
> Client machine has the same fonts available, aren't you?
> My trick was always to create a gif if it simply HAD to that
> different, to g'tee a display.
I would not recommend using "fancy fonts" for any web page, for the reason
you have mentioned above. What I meant was that one should change the fonts
and/or font sizes that are in use in the browser to something else that is
also widely available (or a close substitute exists). For example, one could
change from 72dpi Helvetica to 100dpi Helvetica or TTF Arial (which is
96dpi). Similarly, one could switch from Times to Times New Roman, or from
Courier to Courier New. Also, font sizes (in points) can be adjusted to be as
large as in other browsers. Despite all this, however, a page should still
look the same in Konqueror and Netscape as it does in Mozilla, assuming the
HTML coding is done well. The only difference will be that Konqueror and
Netscape use smaller fonts; the contents and the content layout should be the
same.
If formatting is a priority, and if one has reason to worry that their
information won't be rendered well in all browsers, PDF could be the answer.
Adobe's Portable Document Format, being PostScript-based, is designed to look
exactly the same wherever it is viewed, no matter what the platform is. In
Windos, the only way (AFAIK) to create a PDF document is to pay Adobe
hundreds of dollars for Adobe Acrobat (the creator, not just the reader).
GNU/Linux has some useful open-source command-line tools (part of the
ghostscript package) to quickly and easily create PDF files. Of these, my
favourite would be ps2pdf. Since just about all GNU/Linux software that can
print to a printer will also allow you to print to a PostScript (.ps) file
(since printing in GNU/Linux is usually done in PostScript), all you need to
do is print to a .ps file and then use ps2pdf to convert it to a PDF. More
information can be found at the command-line by typing "man ps2pdf".
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