[X4U] Fonts Which One?

[Richard]

So, What we need to know,
is what are the basic fonts, that are support
on both platforms, Mac and PC

Rick

On Oct 6, 2004, at 2:52 PM, Eugene wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:14:56PM -0400, Richard wrote:
> :
> : If I choice a font, and make the email a Rich Text,
> : and send it out: would the other party received the email
> : with the same font, being used to display the text???
> :
> : OR: would there email client default there own font?
> : OR: again, But isn't Rich Text, HTML like?
> :
> : i.e Mac sending email to a PC friend.
>
> RTF files contain a description of what font families it wants for
> certain parts of text.  It's up to the receiver's app to choose a font
> that is available on the local system.  For example, you've set a block
> of text with a proportionally spaced serif font.  Your app choose Times
> New Roman.  When another person on another computer system opens up 
> your
> RTF file, the app on that system will choose Times New Roman, or if the
> font is not available it will choose Palantino or something else.
>
>
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> Eugene Lee
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