Vernanda Fonts Not Showing Up on Web Page

[David Nelms]

I thought I had played it safe when I limit myself to using Times New Roman,
Arial and Veranda to the web sites I do. I just finished one and it was
working fine. Then I noticed that I had forgotten and left some of the text
on a page set at "default". Since I wanted to make sure the user say the
same font throughout, I changed it too Veranda and uploaded it. Then the
person whom I did the website for called and said they were seeing
"giberish" characters taht did not make any sense on this page. They use AOL
and I was wondereing if anyone has had a problem with AOL showing the font
Veranda correctly? I viewed it on connections from 2 different ISP's (using
IE5 each time) and it was fine. So as a test, I went back last night and
reet the whole page to show Arial as teh font and republished. This morning
the customer looked at it on AOL and everything showed up fine. I thought
Veranda was a safe font... could it be that something got corrupted and
republishing fixed it?? or is there really a concern in using that font?

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Make sure that you are setting the font to "Verdana". Verdana is common
Windows font. There is a Veranda, but it is not a common font and doesn't
come installed with any software (including Windows) that I know of. If you
post a URL we can look at the HTML code and see if there is anything odd
about it.

Another possibility is that the client has a bad font file, which is causing
it to show improperly for them and not necessarily for all AOL users.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage