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RE: Bullets not being displayed properly in a Help file
Subject:RE: Bullets not being displayed properly in a Help file From:Chuck Martin <CMartin -at- SERENA -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:14:22 -0700
For basic Windows Help systems, you're probably better off using the two
standard fonts that were designed to be displayed on the lower resolutions
of computer screens: MS Serif and MS Sans Serif. 4 of the 5 listed here are
True Type fonts, which must be rasterized before they can be displayed (the
resterizer is built into Windows).
With Windows 98 and newer, and with various other newer products, such as
Office, you can get installed newer fonts that were designed strictly for
displays: Georgia and Verdana.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Chinell [mailto:dchinell -at- msn -dot- com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 11:40 AM
> Subject: RE: Bullets not being displayed properly in a Help file
>
> We adopted a policy of using only the following
> fonts in documents or help files that are sent
> outside the department:
>
> Arial
> Courier New
> Symbol
> Times New Roman
> Wingdings
>
> These are installed with Windows 95, 98, and NT. (I
> hope with 2000 too, but I don't know for sure.) So
> if your reader has any of those systems installed
> there's a good chance that those fonts will be
> present.
>
--
"I don't entirely understand it but it is true: Highly skilled carpenters
don't get insulted when told they are not architects, but highly skilled
programmers do get insulted when they are told they are not UI designers."
- anonymous programmer quoted in "GUI Bloopers"
by Jeff Johnson
Chuck Martin, Sr. Technical Writer
cmartin -at- serena -dot- com
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