On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 01:03:09 -0500, Eric Freeman <eri### [at] geocitiescom> wrote:
>Ross Smith wrote in message <362### [at] ihugconz>...
>>No. The only Truetype fonts that you can trust to be present on *every*
>>Win32 box are Arial, Courier New, and Times New Roman.
>
>Don't forget Tahoma.

I have a virgin installation of Win95, August 1995 version, installed here 
and I don't see Tahoma listed.  Neither is it listed on my NT 4.0 installation,
either SP3 or SP4 beta.  It was apparently included with Win98 and NT5 beta 2, 
however.  So I wouldn't trust it to be present on every win32 box - it's only
present on two of the five Win32 operating systems that run on this machine, 
and both were released within the past few months.

Arial Black, Comic Sans, the Verdana family, and Impact MT seem to have been
included with IE 3 and higher, which explains their widespread presence, and
they are (afaik) available from Microsoft for free, so if there's a pressing
need for Verdana, it wouldn't be that big a deal to provide a link to MS' 
website for anyone not having it.

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