On 06/09/08 08:21 (GMT+0900) Philippe Wittenbergh apparently typed:

> On Sep 8, 2006, at 4:03 AM, richard n wrote:

>> In the site I'm creating I've set up the fonts for the Body tag  
>> like so:

>> 'font: small "Gill Sans Light", "Gill Sans", "Trebuchet MS",  
>> Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'

>> (I believe that Gill Sans and Gill Sans Light are supplied as standard
>> with OSX. They're unlikely to be on the average PC, so Trebuchet is  
>> for them.)

>> Previewing in different browsers on my Mac, I see Gill Sans Light in
>> Firefox, Opera and even IE Mac 5.2.3.

>> Safari, however, won't display Gill Sans Light - it displays Gill  
>> Sans.

> You need to use the Postscript name of the font: 'GillSans-Light' for  
> Safari, otherwise Safari uses the 'regular' weight
> font: small 'GillSans-Light', 'Gill Sans Light', 'Gill Sans', ..........

Another problem with Gill Sans is that Lotus Smartsuite shipped with some that 
don't work right. Here are samples from the system font palette:

Condensed: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/font-gillsanscond.jpg
Normal: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/font-gillsansnorm-good.jpg
Ultra Bold: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/font-gillsansubld.jpg

WordPro can use them properly, but Gecko won't. If all three are installed, 
ultra bold is what Gecko always uses if roman is requested. If you uninstall 
ultra bold, then Gecko will use condensed. Gecko will only use normal
if the other two are removed from the system. That can produce some rather 
strange looking pages: 
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/font-gillsans-fawny-sm101Eplus120.jpg

Test page: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/font-gillsans.html
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