Arial Font displayed differently on machines

[trScott]

In one of my reports, I used an Arial Font and typed in a size 7 (not in the selection box for font size). The font displays fine on my computer, but is cut off on most everyone else's computer.

If is my guess that size 7 Arial is not really a valid font and each individual computer is translating it to a different size. Could this be true? or could I get lucky and have it be a setting or something?

Thanks for all your help (and as you can tell, I am not a font specialist).

 

[Crowley16]

font sizes are not absolute sizes, so will change between computers...

however your text box sizes normally use cm which is an absolute size, so will not change between computers...

I've never tried to use pt text box dimension properties so don't know if you can...

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[trScott]

Thanks for the info. I did some looking around and the text showed up properly on two machines and incorrectly on three others. I found one common denominator - the created date in the properties of the font. The working machines had an August date while the non-working had a July date. It could be a coincidence, but seems suspicious - may have to test.

BTW - what is cm?

Thanks!

 

[Crowley16]

cm = centimeters, 100th of a meter

1 meter = the distance traveled by a ray of electromagnetic (EM) energy through a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 (3.33564095 x 10-9) of a second

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