FP97: Font Set in Font Options Dialog Box Not Used in Browser (170543)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q170543 For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194243.
SYMPTOMS
In FrontPage Editor, if you select a proportional font in the Font Options
dialog box (Tools menu), the font will not be used by the Web browser.
CAUSE
The font you select in the Font Options dialog box in FrontPage Editor is
used as the default display font in FrontPage Editor only. The font
selections in the Font Options dialog box are intended to be used with
non-English language character sets. Since this font is used as the display
font in FrontPage Editor, HTML font instructions are not written to
the page. Therefore, when you open the page in a Web browser, the browser
substitutes its own default display font and ignores the font choice you
made in the Font Options dialog box.
RESOLUTION
In FrontPage Editor, use either of the following methods to change the
font.
Method 1: Apply Font Formatting to a Selection
Use the following steps to apply font formatting to selected text:
- Select the text you want to format.
- On the Format menu, click Font.
Method 2: Set the Font Option before You Type Your Text
Before you type your text, click Font Options on the Tools menu and select
the proportional font you want to use.
NOTE: By selecting a proportional font, you are simply changing the default
display font used in FrontPage Editor.
MORE INFORMATION
FrontPage allows you to author Webs in multiple languages by setting fonts
in the Font Options dialog box. In order to display languages that do not
use the Roman alphabet, you can create a correspondence between a language
code page and a default display font. This allows you to read the files
using that code page. Only FrontPage Editor uses this correspondence.
The Web browser will reference the required code page and default display
font installed on the international site.
The default proportional font for the ISO-8859-1 (Roman alphabet) character
set is Times New Roman. Therefore, selecting the Times New Roman font in
the Font Options dialog box is redundant, and it overrides the Web
browser's ability to specify the default font in a specific language.
Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 9/26/2001 |
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Keywords: | kbprb kbusage KB170543 |
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