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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 1 Feb 2007.
Re: Proportional Fonts - AOL macro art

Re: Proportional Fonts - AOL macro art

Hi, I followed TLR suggestion and changed the HTML code to use
<pre Style="font-family:Arial,Helvitica,Sans-Serif;
 font-size:10pt;color:black">

It looks like it is now working on Firefox also.

Let me know the result, k?

Thanks!  :-D

On Jan 31, 5:19 pm, lgbeard <n.....@cherther.nut> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:09:30 GMT, TLR <Ter...@sbcGlobal.net> wrote:
> >I'm using Firefox 2.0 on Windows XP.  Your pages are currently
> >displaying fine, for me.  I notice thatyour solution to the above
> >discussed problems seems to be using:
>
> >     <pre><font face="Arial" size="2">
> >     ... Image Text ...
> >     </font></pre>
>
> >This works well, and is probably the most cross-browser solution.
> >However, it still requires the viewer to have the Arial font loaded or
> >mapped.
>
> >Another approach which should be a bit more system-fonts independent,
> >but requires a more up-to-date browser, would be to use inline styles:
>
> >     <pre Style="font-family:Arial,Helvitica,Sans-Serif;
> >      font-size:extra-small">
> >     ... Image Text ...
> >     </pre>
>
> >(set font-size and font-family as desired, of course).
>
> >Alternatively, simply using "Sans-Serif" for the font seems to work OK
> >on my system (it automatically gets remapped as Arial), but I don't know
> >if that is a general solution, or specific to the settings on my system.
>
> Just for curiosity i tried your suggestion it work somewhat. Font size
> was the issue on page opening. With some minor adjustments the page display
> overrode may font display settings in FireFoxF 2.0
>
> <pre Style="font-family:Arial,Helvitica,Sans-Serif;
>  font-size:10pt;color:black">
>
> at 110% the images displayed upon opening ok.

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