fixedLineHeight = a great help

Christopher Mitchell chrism at lumin.us
Sat Feb 7 01:46:30 EST 2004


Thanks, ladies and gentlemen, for your tips here.

Dar, your list is scary... It's as if someone decided consciously to 
make sure that fonts didn't quite line up the same on the competing 
platforms.  Excellent resource though, and shows why weird things 
happen when you start using cross-platform fonts of that size (72pt)

fixedlineheight and adjustment of the lineHeight value has made a huge 
difference.  Thanks for pointing this out, even the Hebrew font looks 
reasonably well placed now!

exciting things ahead ... thanks to all of you!

Yours,
Chris
On Feb 7, 2004, at 12:25 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 2/7/04 12:06 AM, Christopher Mitchell wrote:
>
>> Here are the results of a test with Arial.  Notice, oddly, that 
>> changing the field font to Arial also had a corresponding change to 
>> the font used in the control group...
>
> Try setting the fixedlineheight property of the field to true and the 
> setting a fairly high lineHeight value. (The lineHeight property 
> corresponds to what printers call "leading".) If the fixedlineheight 
> is false, then characters do not always use the same leading across 
> platforms.
>
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