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joaniedimicco
fonts appear differently on different OS's
Jul 26th, 2006, 11:04pm  
When my Processing applet is viewed on a browser in Linux or Solaris, the font (Futura-CondensedExtraBold-14.vlw) looks terrible: the letters overlap one another and are difficult to read. The font looks great on my Mac.

Should I pick a different font? Is there a software fix for this? I thought that if I included the *.vlw file with the applet, then it would be fine on different operating systems.

Any suggestions?
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fry
Re: fonts appear differently on different OS's
Reply #1 - Jul 27th, 2006, 9:33pm  
the issue is that if the font is installed on your machine, then it'll use the native font (which will be faster and prettier), but if it's not installed, then it'll use the .vlw file.

the best thing to do is to create fonts at the sizes that you'll be using them, and be sure to enable smoothing. sorry this isn't covered in the docs just yet, i have an entry written for the faq for it but it's not yet complete.
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