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From: lgbeard <none@cherther.nut>
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Subject: Re: Proportional Fonts - AOL macro art
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:09:30 GMT, TLR <TerryRoddy@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.