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From: tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlL...@att.net>
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Subject: Re: Q.: Characters browsers under Win XP can't show?
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:45:32 -0400
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:29:38 +0300, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> 2012-09-25 17:10, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> 
>> William F. Adams wrote:
> [...]
>>> To determine what font is used for a character in a browser make
>>> a .pdf of the page, then look at the .pdf characteristics.
>>
>> Much simpler to use the Web Developers Bar or Firebug extensions in
>> Firefox.
> 
> No, not really. Consider the following:
> 
> <!doctype html>
> <html lang=fi>
> <meta charset=utf-8>
> Hello world
> <p style="font-family: serif">Hello again
> 
> The Web Developer Extension and Firebug both report the fonts as 
> "serif", which is of course not the name of a font but a generic name 
> that is mapped to a specific font name in a browser-dependent way.
> 
> (Incidentally, on IE 9, Win 7, the document is displayed using two 
> different fonts: the browser default font, though a serif font, is not 
> the same font as the one corresponding to the generic name "serif"!)
> 
> I'm afraid PDF format does not give a direct answer either, but it does 
> give a specific answer. On Adobe Reader, the font is specified as 
> "Times-Roman". I suppose this means the same as "Times New Roman". On 
> Foxit Reader, the font is shown as "MDCZEU+Times-Roman". For more fun 
> (and addressing a more important question), when I open the document on 
> IE and print to a virtual printer in PDF format, the fonts are shown as 
> "BLDMJH+51ogbe" and "QTPJOZ+19fubkffbonphwm"

You remind me, Jukka, of the tale (perhaps apocryphal) of the stable-boy
whom Francis Bacon felt inspired to discharge when, hearing Francis and his
supper-mates discussing all the theoretical grounds on which one might
infer how many teeth grow in the mouth of a healthy stallion, he offered to
go out into the stable, count a stallion's teeth, and report back with the
answer to the  assembled discussants. Alas, poor stable-boy: Sir Francis
far preferred the refined discussion to the brutal facts :-) .

So: thanks for those brutal facts :-) !

Cheers, -- tlvp
-- 
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

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