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Re: System font

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Subject: Re: System font
From: Terry Ford <tmford at shaw dot ca>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:54:37 -0800
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On 31-Oct-05, at 1:31 PM, Aaron Ballman wrote:

The Windows system font defaults to Tahoma for Windows 2000 and XP but RB uses MS Sans Serif. A real pain since MS Sans Serif is missing a number of
the ISOLatin1 characters.


According to the user experience docs, it should default to Tahoma on Win2k and up. Unfortunately, in practice it still defaults to MS Sans Serif.

Is MS lying here? ;-)

We had changed our font system to default to Tahoma on Win2k and up recently, but got numerous complaints about not looking like other apps installed on the system, so we rolled the change back.

One of the things I noticed when I got my PC was that the user could change a lot of appearance items in Windows XP. This doesn't help the RB designer unless they choose their own fonts and not rely on the System fonts set by the user. Very unfriendly from a developers standpoint.

Terry

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