Hover Button Fonts

[Larry Walsh]

After creating a hover button, I other click and select
Hover Button Properties. On the Font property for the
Button Text I select Arial 12 bold. The Font previews
correctly, but when I publish, the font becomes distorted
on all IE 6.0 machines we have here. I checked the html
code and found the font attribute to have the
value="Helvetica" set. I split screened in FP2003 and
change the Hover button font property , I selected Courier
New and it changed it to Courier, changed it to Times New
Roman and it changed the html to TimesRoman, selected
Arial and it changed to Helvetica! I edited the html code
to "Arial", published and it looks fine. Anyone have any
idea what FP is doing??

TIA
PS, this also happens with FP2002.

 

[E. T. Culling]

See the previous Hover button question 2 hours ago. This article will help:
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=29

Eleanor

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

It's been a while since I used them, but what it could be doing is changing
the fonts into a certain standard set available in the Java runtime since it
may not be possible for all applets to have access to system fonts, thus it
maps certain faults into default sets, Helvetica for the standard serif
fonts, etc...

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP- FrontPage

 

[Larry Walsh]

Thanks for the quick response. All my intranet users and
my FP authors have the JAVA VM installed. Hover buttons
still work when the VM is installed. I need to use them
because the CEO insists (showed him the other ways of
doing the same thing, he insists we use them until they
are made completely inoperative or removed by Microsoft,
still do not understand why :-}). My question is, why is
FP substituting Helvetica for Arial in the code, since
Arial is a "common" font it really should not change it.
Do I assume it is FP bug that MicroSoft will not fix
because it is in a Java based component? If so ,I will
just have to deal with it by manually changing the font in
the HTML code.