fonts for MAC

[lord22]

Hi,

I've created a website which uses Arial font, but on MAC it uses other font.

How can I fix the problem?


Thanks.

[bluewalrus]

You probably can't, if the mac doesn't have the font installed. There's an embed script I've seen on here but I think that uses css 3.1 and I'm not sure which browsers use that. You could search for those or use images for the text. or if you want someone else to look at your code and see if they see something wrong post a link or code.

[davelf]

i have the same problem with my mac, even i install the font, there's still no change, it's still error for the font. But in my case error show on flash. are there some problem with my flash script?

[bluewalrus]

Can one of you post a link?

[maiden]

The fot showed depends by the fonts installed on the user's pc or mac, the flash problem probably is different!

[davelf]

hmm, i don't really know maiden, it's different or not between flash n html.

this is the link:
http://www.imaxxo.com/imaxxo02/indexTree.html

But it's still pretty weird cause some flash that use arial font work perfectly, only that one the problem show.

this is another link that show the arial font work perfectly:

http://www.imaxxo.com/imaxxo02/indexCarousel.html

or may be there's something wrong with the safari?

[jscheuer1]

I think it may depend upon where the font used in the Flash is coming from. For instance, as far as I know, fonts may be embedded in the swf, if it is, it will use that font. Otherwise it will use the browser's, like especially if for some reason the swf is importing HTML.

Back to when specifying fonts in HTML, one should use css style and always provide a generic fall back font. There are three generic fall back fonts:


serif
sans-serif
monospace


The closest to arial is sans-serif, so one should do:


font-family: arial, sans-serif;

If a computer/browser has a default sans-serif font, it will often be arial or very arial-like.