I'm running into a problem when I construct a web page.
I've constructed several web pages for an organization which look great 
on my computer, but look quite different on other people's machines.

Over the years I've accumulated many new and exciting fonts on my 
computer. I use these in constructing a web page, and the web page may 
look great on my machine. However, since most of the people who view the 
page do not have the same fonts installed, the page looks quite 
different on their computers.

My question is: How can I get a listing of the initially installed fonts 
that come with every copy of Windows XP? At least when I develop a web 
page I can use only these fonts so that the page will display the same 
on everyone's computer.

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, mortn wrote:

> I'm running into a problem when I construct a web page.
> I've constructed several web pages for an organization which look great on my 
> computer, but look quite different on other people's machines.
>
> [trim]

> My question is: How can I get a listing of the initially installed fonts that 
> come with every copy of Windows XP? At least when I develop a web page I can 
> use only these fonts so that the page will display the same on everyone's 
> computer.

     Everyone's computer?  How about those (probably) millions of people
who do not use Windows XP?  What about Mac users?  What about Linux and
Unix users?  For that matter, what about all those people (such as me)
who are using other versions of Windows -- 98, 98se, ME, NT, 2000? 
What about all the various web browsers out there -- Opera, Mozilla,
Arachne, Thuderbird (or is it Firefox), Netscape, and maybe others? 
Perhaps you need to think through just what it is you are trying to
accomplish and determine if it is even feasible.

-- 
Paul Bartlett

mortn <mortn@adelphia.net> wrote:
>I'm running into a problem when I construct a web page.
>I've constructed several web pages for an organization which look great 
>on my computer, but look quite different on other people's machines.
>
>Over the years I've accumulated many new and exciting fonts on my 
>computer. I use these in constructing a web page, and the web page may 
>look great on my machine. However, since most of the people who view the 
>page do not have the same fonts installed, the page looks quite 
>different on their computers.

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then maybe you should put your text in as a graphic, so everyone will
see what you see.

hint: http://www.w3.org -
make your webpages cross browser compatible. It's not that hard, and
practically everyone will be able to view your webpages, regardless of
operating system or browser choice.

You might be interested in this topic : 
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum36/120.htm

Regards,
Peter Bowie
www.blacksunsoftware.com
X-Fonter : The best font manager there is 

mortn wrote:
> I'm running into a problem when I construct a web page.
> I've constructed several web pages for an organization which look great 
> on my computer, but look quite different on other people's machines.
> 
> Over the years I've accumulated many new and exciting fonts on my 
> computer. I use these in constructing a web page, and the web page may 
> look great on my machine. However, since most of the people who view the 
> page do not have the same fonts installed, the page looks quite 
> different on their computers.
> 
> My question is: How can I get a listing of the initially installed fonts 
> that come with every copy of Windows XP? At least when I develop a web 
> page I can use only these fonts so that the page will display the same 
> on everyone's computer.


Have a look at : http://www.codestyle.org/
This site can give you a good up to date idea of fonts generally 
available to people on various operating systems.

Grz, Jrf

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:14:44 -0400, Paul Bartlett wrote:

>  What about Linux and
> Unix users?

I'm one of those :)

MS use to give away a set of fonts called MS Core Web fonts.
They no longer give them away, but they are still very easy to obtain.

They included the following fonts:

Andale
Arial
Comic Sans MS
Courier
Georgia
Impact
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
Webdings

-=-
It should be noted that Comic Sans MS relies heavily on the ttf bytecode
interpreter that Apple has 3 patents on, and as such, it looks crappy in
Linux - so I don't have / want that font, I use a font called Wastrel
instead (not free but inexpensive) that gets used whenever Comic Sans MS
is requested.

Good web design though does not depend upon specific fonts, instead -
specify nothing or specify serif, sans-serif, etc. in your style sheet.

I do tend to specify fonts in my style sheets - falling back on several
fonts and finally falling back on a generic.

IE I might specify Helvetica and if they don't have that, fall back on
Sans-Serif. Or I might specify Times New Roman and fall back on Times and
then fall back on Serif if they don't have either of those installed.

Or I might specify Monaco (best mono font ever imho) and fall back on
Lucida Mono and fall back on Arial and finally fall back on monospace.

If you have to have a specific look, do it as a PDF or Flash document.
Though Flash cuts out some operating systems, and some people
intentionally disable flash.