Sophisticated Typography

The Reader supports the highest quality of typographic layout. Microsoft Reader's underlying font display technology offers more typographic precision than current Web layout engines. Because the Reader uses unique technology to display fonts properly, the display does not always exactly match the browser layout engines' behavior, even if the content format uses identical tags. Some especially distracting forms of markup—such as blinking elements, music, and patterned backgrounds—are disabled entirely.

If browser layout standards conflict with sound typographical or design judgment, the Reader produces high quality results, even if these results conflict with common web layout traditions. These conflicts are all described herenone of these differences are large, but together they help provide an optimal reading experience to the viewer using Microsoft Reader.

© 2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of use.