Date Posted:Fri, 18 Mar 2005, 19:36 GMT Author:Michael Horey Subject: Re: Replacing Times New Roman by Arial? In reply to:
Klaus Zimmer
's message, "Replacing Times New Roman by Arial?" on Sun, 13 Mar 2005, 08:33 GMT
>Is it possible to replace the font Times New Roman by
>Arial? To my mind this would give everything a better
>look.
Strictly speaking, the font used is not Times New Roman, but a generic 'serif' font supplied by Java.
When I first developed the DFT, I tried using a 'sans serif' font and found that strings took up significantly more space. For this reason, I used the most 'compact' font available.