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Scott Kellogg

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Mar 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/22/96
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Help! I want to find the font on PC/Window machines that is closest to a
font called "Geneva" on a Mac. Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks.

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Paul Gilmartin

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Mar 23, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/23/96
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Scott Kellogg (kel...@goshawk.csrv.uidaho.edu) wrote:
: Help! I want to find the font on PC/Window machines that is closest to a
: font called "Geneva" on a Mac. Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks.
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Geneva (one can easily guess :-) is a clone of Helvetica. Does that help?

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Tom Robinson

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Mar 25, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/25/96
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In article <Doqtr...@stortek.com>, p...@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul
Gilmartin) wrote:

I always go Geneva <-> Arial... (yeah, it's much the same as Helvetica)
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Paul Fuchs

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Apr 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/3/96
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In article <1996Apr4...@cc.newcastle.edu.au>,
so...@cc.newcastle.edu.au wrote:

> In article <Doqtr...@stortek.com>,

> p...@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> > Scott Kellogg (kel...@goshawk.csrv.uidaho.edu) wrote:
> > : Help! I want to find the font on PC/Window machines that is closest to a
> > : font called "Geneva" on a Mac. Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks.
> > : --
> > Geneva (one can easily guess :-) is a clone of Helvetica. Does that help?
> >

> > -- gil
>
> And the Windows version of Helvetica is Arial. There is also a Windows font
> called Arial Narrow. Both of these fonts are included in the Windows install.
>
> Bye,
> Kenneth W. Lee
> so...@cc.newcastle.edu.au

For what it's worth, Arial and Arial Narrow are both available for the Mac
as TrueType fonts as well.

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so...@cc.newcastle.edu.au

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