Verdana 11 Font

[jbloggs]

I have HTML webpages (in Dreamweaver) in Verdana 11 font, now I wish to add a webpage to the website with PDF files that can either be read with a PDF reader (in browser) or downloaded.

The PDF files that I will be using are at this time in Word 2003, and what I will do is simply convert them with Adobe Acrobat Pro. to PDF, however, before I convert them, I wish to get the font in the Word Docs the same as what the HTML pages are in, which is Verdana 11. But when I put a Word Doc into Verdana 11, and compare it with the opened webpage in Dreamweaver, the text in the Word Doc looks a bit bigger, both Dreamweaver and Word are @ 100% magnification.

What would be causing the Word Doc (in Verdana 11) to look bigger than the text on the HTML webpage being displayed in Dreamweaver, and how would I get them to look the same size?

Thanks.

 

[Inquisitor]

I wouldn't bother. Adobe Reader resizes the document to fill the screen automatically, so it won't look the right size anyway. Besides, it's a separate document; why does it need to look identical?

 

[jbloggs]

Thanks for your reply...

...why does it need to look identical?

I just thought it would look better...

 

[Inquisitor]

Well websites and PDF documents are viewed in completely separate programs, so it's futile to try to ensure that they render identically. The best you can hope for is that they look similar.

 

[jbloggs]

Well websites and PDF documents are viewed in completely separate programs, so it's futile to try to ensure that they render identically. The best you can hope for is that they look similar.

Thanks for clearing that up...

 

[cjmUK]

Note: you should be defining the web font sizes in terms of %ages or ems. PDFs, which are essentially paper documents, can use point sizes.

See: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size