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Re: Is there a standard use of fonts for online help?
Subject:Re: Is there a standard use of fonts for online help? From:Susan Brown <susan -at- COOKERY -dot- OTTAWA -dot- ON -dot- CA> Date:Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:17:38 -0400
At 06:22 PM 7/23/98 -0400, D. Margulis wrote:
>
>Be careful with Verdana. Yes it is highly legible and a dandy face all
>around. But do not assume that it is installed on the client PC. While
>it is a free download from MS, most users do not routinely scope our the
>MS website for free fonts to download. Everyone on a Windows PC, though,
>has Arial installed.
>
>
True. But the work I have been producing over several years for several
companies, was on-line help for software, and Microsoft allows you to
distribute the fonts freely, as long as you don't change the fonts, so they
were just a part of our installation. Otherwise, it will default to Arial,
which is a reasonable second choice.
Susan Brown
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