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Fonts in IE7
Friday, March 28, 2008 at 7:21 am
Posted by Jim Giglio (3 messages posted)

I use IE7 as my browser. When one clicks the FONTS button under tool -> Internet Explorer, a paltry list of font choices shows up. Hoe does one add a font to this list?

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re: Fonts in IE7
Friday, March 28, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Posted by Sebastian (184 messages posted)

where in the world is the FONTS button?

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re: Fonts in IE7
Friday, March 28, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Posted by Ari (894 messages posted)

Under Tools/Internet Options.


On Friday, March 28, 2008 at 1:57 pm, Sebastian wrote:
>where in the world is the FONTS button?

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re: Fonts in IE7
Friday, March 28, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Posted by Ricer46 (19243 messages posted)

And it's really irrelevant since the fonts are defined in the web page.






On Friday, March 28, 2008 at 1:57 pm, Sebastian wrote:
>where in the world is the FONTS button?

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re: Fonts in IE7
Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 4:42 am
Posted by Jim Giglio (3 messages posted)

Some pages define the font style and size; many don't. The font button is found by clicking TOOLS and then "Internet options" on the resulting drop-down menu. The FONT button is near the bottom of the tabbed box that appears next; it's just to the left of the ACCESSIBILITY button. Any way, found out by trial-and-error (a GOOGLE search on "font install" how to get Rockwell into IE7; I only had to install the font according to the directions.


On Friday, March 28, 2008 at 3:13 pm, Ricer46 wrote:
>And it's really irrelevant since the fonts are defined in the web page.
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re: Fonts in IE7
Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 6:22 am
Posted by normanw (764 messages posted)

Most websites specify fonts but the developer has to
take care to use only fonts that are likely to be installed
on a typical user's computer, though he can also specify
alternatives to his preferred choices that *may* be
available. In reality, he may include a fairly long list of
preferred and alternative fonts, in order of preference,
to take account of the likely environments to be found 
on a variety of computers running under different 
operating systems.

He should also specify generic font types to fall back to if 
none of his preferred fonts or alternatives is available. 
These generic font types are serif, san-serif and 
monospace.




On a Windows-based system, typical defaults for these types would be serif: Times New Roman; sans-serif: Arial; and monospaced: Courier New. However, these may vary and browsers allow the user to specify the use of other defaults. Of course, the user-specified alternatives must already be installed on the computer. Although it is possible for the user to force a website to use fonts other those specified by the developer -- or their near equivalents -- this is generally not a good idea since it is likely to produce results that do not resemble his carefully-considered intentions and in extreme cases may actually render the layout of a page incomprehensible or illegible.


On Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 4:42 am, Jim Giglio wrote:
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>Some pages define the font style and size; many don't.
>The font button is found by clicking TOOLS and then "Internet options" on the resulting
>drop-down menu. The FONT button is near the bottom of the tabbed box that appears
>next; it's just to the left of the ACCESSIBILITY button.
>
>Any way, found out by trial-and-error (a GOOGLE search on "font install" how to get
>Rockwell into IE7; I only had to install the font according to the directions.
>
>

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