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the_wine_snob
Inspiring
June 4, 2010
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Available Fonts in Adobe Fora Editing?

  • June 4, 2010
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Just a few quick questions: I have a limited list of fonts available in the "Font Family" drop-down in the Adobe Forum editing screens. I count 17 in Google Chrome. Is that abbreviated list set by the JiveWare, by my choice of browser, by some other means?

Can that font list be expanded upon?

Just curious, as I have several 100 installed fonts (Win XP-Pro), and many are OTF's.

TIA,

Hunt

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    Correct answer Claudio González

    And I have posted several messages during this more than a year asking for a screen readable font like Verdana -which I also use, as John- instead of Arial, a bad copy of Helvetica which is almost unreadable on screen at the default size of the software. Same luck. I guess it must be an unsurmountable problem for the IT guys. Or perhaps Adobe don't give a crap about how this site looks. If the know how it looks and what it has become.

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    Anonymous
    June 9, 2010

    Can one reset the Jive Font defalults to

    some other defalult?

    Phillip M Jones
    Phillip M Jones
    Inspiring
    June 5, 2010

    I like to use Verdana myself. In fact in the CSS I have installed That what I have it the same script that tells the window to fill the screen. Example

    Note I don't know the first thing about scc. this was on a website that came out just a few days after this Forum design started.

    the_wine_snob
    the_wine_snobAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 5, 2010

    I too like Verdana for viewing on the Web.

    It just struck me odd, that there were so few choices in my drop-down. Obviously, I have either never used it, or found what I wanted in those 17 and just never scrolled to the end.

    Thanks everyone for confirming that I did not have some odd, self-inflicted limitation.

    Appreciated,

    Hunt

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    June 5, 2010

    I also see 17 fonts using Firefox on Windows 2000.

    I personally don't see any need for more fonts.  Where we need to distinguish, e.g. to display code more clearly, we can use various code boxes:

    instructions how to type something

    Sometimes people post in fancy fonts like this - and it is rather hard to read. I am in favor of just using the default font.

    On the other hand I think it would be easy to add more fonts; give them a list of fonts or families you like to see added.

    N.B. unusual fonts can only be displayed if the user has them installed on their computer.

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    Anonymous
    June 5, 2010

    In the good old forums we had no font choice and nobody complained!


    In here I use Verdana because it is designed for easy on-screen reading  –  whereas the default is definitely not.


    Adobe's former type guru, Thomas Phinney requested Verdana be made the default when Jive came on the scene but his went the way of so many other reasonable requests.

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezCorrect answer
    Legend
    June 5, 2010

    And I have posted several messages during this more than a year asking for a screen readable font like Verdana -which I also use, as John- instead of Arial, a bad copy of Helvetica which is almost unreadable on screen at the default size of the software. Same luck. I guess it must be an unsurmountable problem for the IT guys. Or perhaps Adobe don't give a crap about how this site looks. If the know how it looks and what it has become.

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