[PHP-DOC] Re: [PHP-DEV] Conference Materials Site From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 07/17/00

> Never heard of this font face -- must be specific to PCs? It certainly
> does not appear in Netscape 4.72 on my Ultrabook or UltraSPARC 60.

PCs? Well, I do use a PC, but I run Linux. And no, TTF fonts are not
platform specific. And if you google for verdana.ttf you find all sorts
of Linux-related references to it.

> And 12 pt fonts are generally WAY too small for effective use in a
> conference setting. The fact that we are using computers instead of
> slides doesn't rewrite all the old rules for effective presentations --
> one of which is to put no more than about 5 LINES of material per
> screen. I have been using HTML for presentations for about 8 years
> now, and always use 30 pt. fonts or greater. Yes, it looks ridiculous
> to the presenter, accustomed to using 12 pt. fonts when sitting alone
> directly in front of a workstation screen, but it's entirely appropriate
> for use in a group presentation. Think about all those poor souls in
> the back of the auditorium, or with impaired vision (like me)! Your
> 12 pt. font is effectively INVISIBLE to these folks.

Please read a little bit. 12 pt is just the baseline. Every slide uses a
scaling factor from that.

-Rasmus