Re: Helvetica - International Systems?

FROM : Philip George
DATE : Mon Nov 18 06:52:01 2002

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.  :)

- Philip



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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