Cross Platform Fonts

[kseidule]

I have been playing around with different fonts in Mac OS X and Windows. I am currently using Verdana, which seems to look OK. The fonts on the Mac look great (because of the font smoothing) and when I run on Windows (remote desktop connection), it looks pretty jaggy. I get the same effect on my Mac IF I turn font smoothing OFF on the Mac.

The point is, I know MANY of you have done both Mac and Windows versions and played the "what font should I use" game. Has anyone come up with a font compatible for both OS's that look good on both?

Many Regards In Advance,

Kevin

[BrentHedden]

I've had good luck with Times New Roman and Arial, myself.

[kseidule]

I thought for clarification, here is what I see on the Mac...

[kseidule]

And here is what I see on Windows...

[Larry Schroeder]

I've had good luck with Times New Roman and Arial, myself.

This is the same solution I went ever since forced from mac to pc.

It turns out that I use only Arial and if I use Arial Bold it turns out to print differently that it looks on screen (it gets way longer).

I never use paragraph for several lines of field title text on a form. I use single lines and place them.

Also, on lists where I use lines to seperate lines I do not crowed the line by pulling up the part in the layout mode right up to the line. I leave at least 2 pixels, else when I print random data is droped from fields.

It also turned out that all my mac databases had to have their text boxes enlarged since they cut the text off on the pc.

Worse yet the mac graphics I screened grabed and pasted into my mac had to be deleted and recorated. They would lock the pc up. I would get on the pc and open the data base on the mac server. Re screen grab on the pc and paste into a converted database without the graphics. Of course the mac customer could then see no graphics. I think .jpg graphics are best for both platforms.

[bruceR]

Verdana and Tahoma are frequently recommended as excellent xplat fonts. Verdana for data, Tahoma for field labels.