Re: Please help! Web Enabled forms look terrible...

I have seen this table you speak of. I am not the DBA, only a developer. My DBA says he has tried to map these fonts with no luck. My next question is, "Can I expect the form in Netscape to look ok if the fonts are mapped correctly no matter what OS's are involved the development? Or will there always be some sort of discrepancy between the layout editor and the web enabled product?" My DBA tells me that this is the best it will get. I personally find it hard to believe Oracle would put out a product that behaves like ours does. I select a font size in the layout editor of say 8 and it appears in Netscape as about 18. Font sizes of 5 thru 9 seem not to change at all in the web enabled version. When I seperate fields with the layout editor "align objects" option they look fine in the layout editor but are grouped by twos in Netscape and not separated evenly in Netscape. I guess I'm looking for someone to say, "Yes. If you map the fonts correctly in your SUN/UNIX system, the web enabled forms when viewed in WinNT4.0/Netscape will look and feel just like they did when developed in the layout editor viewed through Exceed(X-windows) on WinNT4.0"

If anyone has been through this would they please send me a copy of their font mapping file. -Thanks..

In article <01bdfdbf$4bd6ef80$46100dc2_at_8745bk529169..owinsp.nl>, jmhummel_at_xs4all.nl says...
>
>Web enabled forms uses Java fonts. This is the reason your forms look
>different from the ones in
>your layout-editor, which uses Operating System specific fonts. A table of
>the mapping from OS-fonts
>to Java-fonts can be found in the documentation.
>
>Greetings,
>
>Michel Hummel
>
>Mark S. Reichman <reichmanm_at_removethis.rl.af.mil.> schreef in artikel
><362e22b0.0_at_news.rlcn.rl.af.mil>...
>> It's like this... I am not at all impressed with
>> web enabled 4.5 forms. So far... We are developing web enabled
>> forms sitting in front of NT 4.0 machines, running Exceed as
>> and X-server on the NT 4.0 machines, looking into a Solaris box
>> where the developement occurs. We then view the web enabled
>> forms through netscape on the NT 4.0 machines served up from the
>> Solaris box. Problem is, the forms do not look at all like the
>> developed version in the layout editor.
>> Using "Align Objects" in the layout editor works perfect but
>> when viewed in Netscape the objects are anything but aligned.
>> Picking a font in the layout editor works great, but the fonts
>> are not at all the same size in Netscape. I have to purposely
>> design the form all "crazy looking" so that it shows up
>> in Netscape looking half decent. We have fooled around with a
>> font mapping file in Solaris trying to get the fonts to match up.
>> It so far has been a fruitless endeavor and a real pain
>> and is not working. So.. My question is, so I dont have to
>> work this way for the next 5 years, Has anyone had similar
>> problems in a similar environment and can this be fixed? Is there
>> a way to map the fonts, possibly in multiple places, so this all
>> works? Are we killing ourselves by developing across multiple platforms?
>> Is this simply a font mapping problem?
>>
>>
Received on Fri Oct 23 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT