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Anonymous
January 12, 2015
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Is there a list of web-safe fonts that Captivate 8 will accept or an option to include other web-safe fonts?

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The problem I've encountered is that text generated by a variable will only display as a web safe font and not always the same one across machines. Also different developers are seeing different font options. For instance on my machine,  Helvetica LT 75 Bold is listed, but no other Helvetica options. Another developer has Helvetica LT 77 Bold Condensed instead.

My questions are:

  • Is there a list of web-safe fonts that CP8 will use?
  • Can this list be expanded somehow?

Thank you,

Kelly

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
January 12, 2015

The first group in the Font list are websafe fonts. They are separated from the other fonts by a line.

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Anonymous
January 12, 2015

Yes, I understand where they are in Captivate, but this list seems to vary across different developer's machines--they are seeing different fonts in that list of Web Safe Fonts. I guess I was wanting documentation on what would be accepted so I could make sure all of our developers had those installed.

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Cozmicone
Inspiring
January 27, 2015

Web safe fonts really doesn't have the same meaning as something like web safe colors. While you will generally be OK with selecting a web safe font, it's only web safe in the concept of a font then defaulting to a font on the end users computer that they actually have installed. The default types are serif, sans-serif, and monotype, but then you have more distinct variations which you can see here, CSS Web Safe Fonts.

You'll need to keep in mind that not every person has Arial or Times New Roman installed. Because of this you may have someone that has Helvetica or Times. Both fall under their same respective font families, but will look a little different depending on what the user has installed.

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