fonts and text in tables

[Drew]

To use the font you want, you can use the FACE attribute to the font tag... For example:
<FONT FACE=&quot;Optima&quot;> ... text ... </FONT>

Like you said, though, if they don't have the font, they won't see it.[nbsp][nbsp]One thing you can do to try to fix this, though, is to use a sequence of fonts.[nbsp][nbsp]If they don't have the first one, it will check for the next, and so on.[nbsp][nbsp]For example:
[nbsp][nbsp]<FONT FACE=&quot;Optima, Veranda, Arial&quot;> ... text ... </FONT>

The printing problem isn't your formatting of the table... just an unfortunate printing mishap on the part of your printer or the browser and your printer in combination.[nbsp][nbsp]That's my guess anyway.

_/ drew /_

[Justin]

I find it's best to stick with fonts that are widely used, and like Drew says, always specify more than one. To avoid unnecessary redundancy, I always use CSS to specify my fonts (although there are a few tricks you need to learn for it to work in Netscape).

As a newbie, I would highly recomend learning CSS as well as HTML - most browsers out there (including IE 3.0+, Netscape 4.x, Opera 3.x, WebTV, and others) support it, and it really makes the job a lot easier IMO.

Hope this helps.

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Justin Nelson
FutureQuest Support

[Hugh]

I'm new to making web pages and just trying the basics.
I love the Optima font but it's not the most common one there is and if a pc doesn't have it, so far as I can make out, it only shows text in times new roman or another selected font, such as arial or verdana.
Is there any way of forcing a display in optima from the site, even if the visitor doesn't have the font on their machine, can anyone tell me, please?

Also, I have put the text into a white background table, within a colored body. When it printed out, as it passes from one page to the next in the printer a line of text is lost. Can anyone tell me if that is a problem with text in table or printer set-up or something else other than these?

I'd be glad for any suggestions; it's all a bit of a mystery to me![nbsp]