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Re: Helvetica - International Systems?
FROM : Bob Ippolito
DATE : Mon Nov 18 06:36:02 2002
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.
>
DATE : Mon Nov 18 06:36:02 2002
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.
>
