On my screen, the layout looks perfect, just as it did on screen in FW before I published it.
When she goes to that page, the two fonts in the left column run together, that is, part of the font on top covers part of the font on bottom. In the other two columns, the don’t run together, but the bottom fonts begin immediately under the top two fonts, with no space at all between, whereas the way I set it up and the way it appears on my screen, there’s plenty of space between the upper and lower fonts.
If anyone can explain what might be wrong, I’d greatly appreciate it. This is really scary. I know there are problems between platforms and browsers that have to be anticipated, but I didn’t realize that there might be problems like this on identical machines, platforms, and browsers.
And the machines aren’t but 10’ apart, so the display shouldn’t change just traveling that short distance
On my screen, the layout looks perfect, just as it did on screen in FW before I published it.
When she goes to that page, the two fonts in the left column run together, that is, part of the font on top covers part of the font on bottom. In the other two columns, the don’t run together, but the bottom fonts begin immediately under the top two fonts, with no space at all between, whereas the way I set it up and the way it appears on my screen, there’s plenty of space between the upper and lower fonts.
If anyone can explain what might be wrong, I’d greatly appreciate it. This is really scary. I know there are problems between platforms and browsers that have to be anticipated, but I didn’t realize that there might be problems like this on identical machines, platforms, and browsers.
And the machines aren’t but 10’ apart, so the display shouldn’t change just traveling that short distance
Thanks, Colin, I’ll certainly have everybody take a look at TrebuchetMS, too. Just as a side note, my wife looked at the samples using Safari on her iPad and it looked just fine.
And a good Christmas to you, too.
Martin
On Dec 24, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Colin Alcock wrote:
Looks fine on my old 20" Intel iMac/Safari 5.0.3.
One sample font is missing that I would include and that works quite well on screen: TrebuchetMS - common to both PCs and Macs, these days.
Have a good Christmas. Colin.
On 24 Dec 2010, at 16:23, Martin wrote:
My wife and I both have 24" Intel iMacs running OS 10.6.5 and Safari 5.03.
On a site I’m developing for a friend, I set up a page for the people involved to compare some font faces. The page is at:
On my screen, the layout looks perfect, just as it did on screen in FW before I published it.
When she goes to that page, the two fonts in the left column run together, that is, part of the font on top covers part of the font on bottom. In the other two columns, the don’t run together, but the bottom fonts begin immediately under the top two fonts, with no space at all between, whereas the way I set it up and the way it appears on my screen, there’s plenty of space between the upper and lower fonts.
If anyone can explain what might be wrong, I’d greatly appreciate it. This is really scary. I know there are problems between platforms and browsers that have to be anticipated, but I didn’t realize that there might be problems like this on identical machines, platforms, and browsers.
And the machines aren’t but 10’ apart, so the display shouldn’t change just traveling that short distance
Did your wife perhaps zoom in when she viewed the page in Safari. When you enter the apple and the plus keys the text size increases, your text is then running together when the text is zoomed. To zoom back to the default enter apple and 0.
That was it!!! It never dawned on me that she might have done that. I just went over to her machine and unzoomed it and all was fine. She said she zoomed it because at its regular resolution it was too small for her to read. Then she told me that she had said, when I saw that it looked odd on her screen, “my pixels are different.” I thought that was a joke, but that was her way of trying to tell me she had zoomed. Ah . . . live and learn
Thanks so much,
Martin
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
On Dec 24, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Helveticus wrote:
Did your wife perhaps zoom in when she viewed the page in Safari. When you enter the apple and the plus keys the text size increases, your text is then running together when the text is zoomed. To zoom back to the default enter apple and 0.
Bob, unfortunately I really don’t understand what this means entirely yet. But I was wondering whether it’s possible to make them be inline in FWPro? If so, I can find out about it. Did you mean “should” be inline?
Thanks,
Martin
Signal Mountain, TN
On Dec 24, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Robert B wrote:
That’s where the infamous box model comes in. Those text boxes would be inline so they would push the bottom text down rather than go on top of it.
Yeah, basically that’s all box model means, pretty much. Or, use tables (as in uncheck the CSS button) Then you don’t need to make them inline in that case.
Yes, inline is possible in FWPro. Basically, you make a box, double click in the box to get a cursor, then go to Insert and insert an html box.
