Re: Fonts that are always there

2009-09-03 Thread I. Savant
On Sep 3, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: No, you should fall back on the system as mentioned above. Always. Why? It's perfectly reasonable to look for, say, Tahoma but fall back to Helvetica, then use the system font as a last resor The term "fall back on" means exactly what you de

Re: Fonts that are always there

2009-09-03 Thread Jens Alfke
On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:07 AM, I. Savant wrote: (Of course, I should always have a second alternative.) No, you should fall back on the system as mentioned above. Always. Why? It's perfectly reasonable to look for, say, Tahoma but fall back to Helvetica, then use the system font as a last r

Re: Fonts that are always there

2009-09-03 Thread Jens Alfke
On Sep 3, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Gabriel Zachmann wrote: Does anyone know which fonts are always there on every Mac OS X 10.5 system? (besides the base 14 fonts from Adobe) Apple has some Knowledge-Base articles listing the installed fonts, but I don't have a link handy. —Jens___

Re: Fonts that are always there

2009-09-03 Thread I. Savant
On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Gabriel Zachmann wrote: Does anyone know which fonts are always there on every Mac OS X 10.5 system? (besides the base 14 fonts from Adobe) Or is there somewhere a list? Do you really want a list of fonts or do you mean to find a safe, system-provided font?

Fonts that are always there

2009-09-03 Thread Gabriel Zachmann
Does anyone know which fonts are always there on every Mac OS X 10.5 system? (besides the base 14 fonts from Adobe) Or is there somewhere a list? (Of course, I should always have a second alternative.) Best regards, Gabriel. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___