Re: Helvetica - International Systems?

FROM : Bob Ippolito
DATE : Mon Nov 18 07:01:01 2002

If I were an advanced font user that intentionally disabled Helvetica
(if there were ever a legitimate reason to do so), I'd probably be more
confused (or even frustrated) if the app still rendered Helvetica
properly rather than erroring out or doing ugly font substitution.

-bob

On Monday, Nov 18, 2002, at 09:51 America/New_York, Philip George wrote:

> That's a valid point.  I agree with it totally, but there's just
> something about an app that's resilient in its own right, you know? 
> It's comforting when an app can deal with sticky situations like that
> transparently, without the user having to even think about it, let
> alone worry about it.
>
> But I see your point, and it's a solid backup if Plan A doesn't work
> out.  :)
>
> On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 08:35  AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>

>> Why don't you just detect the presence of Helvetica and error out,
>> with a user-friendly error message, if it's not present.  The rare
>> potential user that may do something ridiculous like disable
>> Helvetica will certainly be familiar with the consequences and know
>> how to enable the font and restart your application.
>>
>> On Monday, Nov 18, 2002, at 09:15 America/New_York, Philip George
>> wrote:
>>

>>>
>>> For clarification, this app has REALLY tight margins in a few spots
>>> where the font had to be very carefully chosen/sized/positioned. 
>>> Just letting any old font take its place may or may not work
>>> (usually not).  That's why I'm so nervous about it not being there. 
>>> And now that the code is written and streamlined, I'm finding it
>>> extra hard to comment it out.
>>>

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