Basic XP Fonts

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Google for "web safe fonts"
"Mort" <mortn@REMOVECAPSadelphia.net.INVALID> wrote in message
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| I'm running into a problem when I construct a web page.
| I've constructed several web pages for an organization which look great
| on my computer, but look quite different on other people's machines.
|
| Over the years I've accumulated many new and exciting fonts on my
| computer. I use these in constructing a web page, and the web page may
| look great on my machine. However, since most of the people who view the
| page do not have the same fonts installed, the page looks quite
| different on their computers.
|
| My question is: How can I get a listing of the initially installed fonts
| that come with every copy of Windows XP? At least when I develop a web
| page I can use only these fonts so that the page will display the same
| on everyone's computer.

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Cant help with basic fonts, here is what I do and it doesn't matter the user
has the fonts or not. Instead of using text directly on the webpage, I make
an image <gif transparent, or jpg> and put the image on the page. Wala
....... works great.
"Tom Pepper Willett" <tompepper@mvps.invalid> wrote in message
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> Google for "web safe fonts"
> "Mort" <mortn@REMOVECAPSadelphia.net.INVALID> wrote in message
> news YbmX%23vuFHA.3152@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> | I'm running into a problem when I construct a web page.
> | I've constructed several web pages for an organization which look great
> | on my computer, but look quite different on other people's machines.
> |
> | Over the years I've accumulated many new and exciting fonts on my
> | computer. I use these in constructing a web page, and the web page may
> | look great on my machine. However, since most of the people who view the
> | page do not have the same fonts installed, the page looks quite
> | different on their computers.
> |
> | My question is: How can I get a listing of the initially installed fonts
> | that come with every copy of Windows XP? At least when I develop a web
> | page I can use only these fonts so that the page will display the same
> | on everyone's computer.
>
>

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Mort wrote:
> I'm running into a problem when I construct a web page.
> I've constructed several web pages for an organization which look great
> on my computer, but look quite different on other people's machines.
>
> Over the years I've accumulated many new and exciting fonts on my
> computer. I use these in constructing a web page, and the web page may
> look great on my machine. However, since most of the people who view the
> page do not have the same fonts installed, the page looks quite
> different on their computers.
>
> My question is: How can I get a listing of the initially installed fonts
> that come with every copy of Windows XP? At least when I develop a web
> page I can use only these fonts so that the page will display the same
> on everyone's computer.

See http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.aspx

(BTW, why do you assume that everyone has Windows XP? It is not even
close to being true.)

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"Jerry" <jhuffman@triad.rr.com> wrote:

>Cant help with basic fonts, here is what I do and it doesn't matter the user
>has the fonts or not. Instead of using text directly on the webpage, I make
>an image <gif transparent, or jpg> and put the image on the page. Wala
>...... works great.

Greatly increases loading times for those still on dialup.