Re: FN-FORUM >The MAc makes the letters usualy two sizes smaller than PCs -True of false?

date posted 3rd March 2000 18:51

Roger Pett wrote on 3/3/00 2:47 pm



>> The MAc makes the letters usualy two sizes smaller than PCs
>>
>> True or false? Any practical experience anyone?
It's because MS futzed the screen font size - standard
size is 72dpi, but MS made is 96 for Windows. They're now looking
to break the Mac standard with IE5.


>Yes, to some extent anyway. I recently experienced this when I delivered
>laid out copy for a newsletter (in PageMaker 6.5) on CDROM to a printer. I
>prepared it on a PC. They use Macs. They just opened the files on their
>Mac, made the film and plates and printed the job without checking. All the
>character and line spacing was shot to pieces. What a mess.
More likely this is because you're using different versions of the fonts,
possibly different vendor versions of the same font.


>All that said, it is not really a problem and easily remedied if you keep an
>eye on what is happening when working across platforms.
Cross platform web design is a fun game, only exceeded by cross browser
design - take a look at http://browsers.evolt.org for a fairly
comprehensive
list of what's out there.

Cheers
Martin