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You can only count on Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New
(and nothing else) if you're dealing
with Windows 3.1 and all newer versions. Tahoma is
widely used and distributed with various versions of
Internet Explorer, thus usually but not always available.
Eric
On Thu, 1 Jul
1999, Wollt, Richard C wrote:
> One of our programmers just asked me if there is a font (or a group of
> fonts) that will always be present on a computer running Windows? I think
> Tahoma is used internally by windows and must be present, but I'm not sure.
>
> Dick Wollt
> richard -dot- wollt -at- unisys -dot- com
>
>
> From ??? -at- ??? Sun Jan 00 00:00:00 0000==
>
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