Re: Conference Materials Site

> 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