Arial Black… Not exactly my favorite choice for on screen display. So are any of our 11 fonts the same height at 12 pt? Yes, one of them. This all breaks if you have different font heights on different platforms. I get picky about text height, for example, I size my portals to the same height as the text in it, so when you edit the text, it all looks neat. This was the one that bugged me the most, I think because I develop on a mac, and I just know that Arial is bigger on Windows and when you see 11pt Arial in windows that has been created and resized on a mac, the bottom of characters like “y” are slightly cut off. To test this, I’ve setup a file with some basic text in a block, one copy for each of the fonts I outlined previously and then resized it to fit in both windows and mac at 11 pt and 12 pt.įirst, text height.
Verdana is very different in lengths, but closer in heights. If you’d asked me before I’d actually tested it, I would have said, Arial is shorter on mac than windows, but they’re pretty close in length. This time I’ll look at how both platforms display the standard fonts in FileMaker Pro. My previous article listed all of the fonts that are common to both Windows XP and MacOS X.
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