Yeah that was annoying for us too. I found that if I inlcuded a style for the body tag in the VFE style file then instead of Times New Roman it used the style in the body style definition.
textarea{ font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;}
This is a bit of a hack, but it will use the right font while the DCT is loading. Add a stylesheet to the DCT, and set a textarea font.e.g. textarea{ font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;}
Thanks neil_a for your response. When you said adding a stylesheet to the DCT, did you mean the .css file configured in visualformatconfig.xml? Can you please provide us the steps or any sample codes?
<viewoptions cssurl="/path/to/my/custom/stylesheet/styles.css" actionlist="save; saveas; preview;"/>