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.  One thing you can do to try to fix this, though, is to use a sequence of fonts.  If they don't have the first one, it will check for the next, and so on.  For example:
  <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.  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!