Can I get photoshop to match my web browser font interpretation

Hi,

I have noticed that photoshop interperets the same font differently
from how my internet browser interperets the font.

Is there a way to match in Photoshop the same thing I see on my web
browser.

The font I have in question is Comic Sans MS.

I have posted an example at :

http://www.atbcards.com/fontproblem/example.php

The top one is ie6 displaying 5 divs with Comic Sans MS size 10 px

and the second one is 5 text areas in photoshop, the same size as the
div with Comic Sans MS, 10 pt

The pts should match the pxs as it is on top of a 72ppi image.


Thanks
Norm Archibald.

 

(Norm) wrote in @posting.google.com:

No. Two very different type rendering engines. Sorry.

You might get closer playing with the aliasing in Photoshop. Bear in mind,
however, that pont size is essentially meaningless past big number is
larger than smaller number when you're working on the screen.

<snip>

 

You have to really mess with Photoshop's character rendering. In your
case, try to set the font to 'crisp' or 'none'. Try different settings to
see what I mean. Unfortunately, point sizes render differently depending
upon the browser and platform and there's not much you can do about it -
that I know of.

 

And, if you're using a bare font rather than a font image, remember
that people will only see that font if they actually have it installed
on their computer. Otherwise, they will get whatever is nearest or
whatever you have encoded next, or next to that, and so on in the font
list.

 

Norm,

please, if you post in a forum (Google Computer Graphics) then
comment the replies. Otherwise the volunteers might feel they
had wasted their time.

As already explained: size in PhS in pixels, anti-aliasing None.
If you can guarantee that CSS fixes the font size by pixels,
then the results are very similar.
This example is without CSS. Use smallest browser font size for
a comparison:
http://www.fho-emden.de/~hoffmann/comic.html

At least the blur is gone.

Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

 

Thanks for the replies - I have tried using alias none however the
text is very pixelated for larger font sizes so unless I can overcome
that then alias none is not an option.

I will keep testing and post the results if any.

Thanks
Norm

 

Norm,

thanks for the feedback. Now I see that you use JPEGs.
Anti-aliased or not anti-aliased images for text should
be saved as GIF. JPEG blurs the text further.

Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann