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David Lasher  
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 More options Sep 26 2012, 5:28 am
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, comp.fonts
From: David Lasher <djlas...@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:29:09 -0400
Local: Wed, Sep 26 2012 5:29 am
Subject: Re: Q.: Characters browsers under Win XP can't show?
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On 2012-09-25 10:29, 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"

There's a Firefox add-on that simply tells you what fonts are actually
used on a page.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fontinfo/

David


 
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