Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 11/28/00 12:00

Scripsit ynoteh:

> I know that a web page will not look as intended if the visitor does
> not have the specified font installed on their computer..
> But what about printing the web page?

The situation is mostly the same. In rare cases, the system might lack a
named font as a printer font but have it as a screen font, or vice
versa.

> If the same visitor tries to
> print that page and does not have the font installed, will they get
> the intended font, or a substitute on their printout?

Of course he does not get the intended font. He might get a substitute
font selected by the browser (e.g., specifying "Times" might result in
"Times New Roman" being used, if "Times" does not exist), but more
often, the browser's default font will be used.

You might affect this by using a print style sheet, e.g.

<style type="text/css">
@media print { body { font-family: Cambria, sans-serif; } }
</style>

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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