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ShaolinWood
06-03-2005, 04:25 PM
Anyone had the issue where dynamic fonts displays wrond on Mac?
It shows the right font, just at the wrong sizes.
I'm using Silkscreen.

All is fine on PC, IE and Mozilla.
On mac it screws up.

Also I can't get a popup window to be the right size on Mac, it's fine again on PC-IE and Mozilla but on Mac it looks like it leaves space for scrollbars.

Ive tried using the scrollbars=no tag in the javascript but no luck.

Thanks in advance for any help
oldnewbie
06-04-2005, 04:33 AM
Do you know of anything that displays correctly on Mac?
ShaolinWood
06-06-2005, 11:50 AM
Ha ha, yea good point :)
ct34
06-06-2005, 02:42 PM
are you sure in the font panel that you have it set to anti alias?

maybe it anti aliasing or something and that makes it look larger.

i think macs all anti alias font, though... so not sure.
badlorry
06-06-2005, 02:57 PM
as I understand it, and I could be completely wrong, PC and Mac fonts differ in their filetype. That would mean, that even if you embedded the font in flash file (on a PC) that a Mac could be searching for the file, but not finding the mac equivalent.

I've found this recently using a commercial font called Avenir. On a PC it's called Avenir Book, Black or Medium, and on a Mac it's called Avenir 55, 65, and 75. If you test a PC version of the .FLA on a mac, it defaults to the system font, and for a Mac .FLA on a PC, it's the same problem.