Hi all,
I'm new to this forum and I'm new to CSS.
Question: Can I use CSS or any other tool to display non-installed fonts on a visitor/user machine?
Meaning, if a visitor/user has a machine without a special or specific font on their machine to view my webpages then it would be defaulted to Times New Roman, Arial, or Verdana...but I want them to view my special font regardless if it is installed on their machine or not, how can I accomplish this?
Would CSS be the right route? Or is MIME Types capable of handling this? Or maybe, there is something else that accomplishes this?
I have looked at WEFT and this is not the tool for me, it only works for IE and also, I'm looking to make global font changes to about 200-pages of content, not just one web page.
I'm under the assumption that CSS would not do this because I understand that it is browser-side programming, but maybe someone has a trick. Or maybe there is something out there that handles just that, like server-side include "fonts".
Anyway, please help! I greatly appreciate it.Hi!
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Cheers - PitYou want to use WEFT, trust me.
1) You're the only person who really cares what font that you use.
2) Nothing you do will work on all browsers. If it works in MSIE then it will work for most all users, I'm ashamed to admit.
3) You can over-ride WEFT's choice of glyphs to embed. Just select all the one's that you might possibly use.Here is one that I use from time to time:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.stewartspeak.com/dtr/">http://www.stewartspeak.com/dtr/</a><!-- m -->
Click here for a demo (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.stewartspeak.com/dtr/demo/">http://www.stewartspeak.com/dtr/demo/</a><!-- m -->) Make sure to view the page source.
Here is one that I am toying with that also works but it harder to set up:
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Demo here (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/files/sifr/2.0/">http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/files/sifr/2.0/</a><!-- m -->)
The first one demands that your host has gdlib installed and running. The second has no such requirement but you must have a Flash MX to edit the font in the flash movie it uses.
The first uses a setting in the script to set the font to the size you wish. The second fills the space available which is good and bad. Good because it is dynamic and bad because it take mucho tweaking to get it right.
I'm new to this forum and I'm new to CSS.
Question: Can I use CSS or any other tool to display non-installed fonts on a visitor/user machine?
Meaning, if a visitor/user has a machine without a special or specific font on their machine to view my webpages then it would be defaulted to Times New Roman, Arial, or Verdana...but I want them to view my special font regardless if it is installed on their machine or not, how can I accomplish this?
Would CSS be the right route? Or is MIME Types capable of handling this? Or maybe, there is something else that accomplishes this?
I have looked at WEFT and this is not the tool for me, it only works for IE and also, I'm looking to make global font changes to about 200-pages of content, not just one web page.
I'm under the assumption that CSS would not do this because I understand that it is browser-side programming, but maybe someone has a trick. Or maybe there is something out there that handles just that, like server-side include "fonts".
Anyway, please help! I greatly appreciate it.Hi!
You may have a look here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#value-def-font-description">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.htm ... escription</a><!-- m -->
Cheers - PitYou want to use WEFT, trust me.
1) You're the only person who really cares what font that you use.
2) Nothing you do will work on all browsers. If it works in MSIE then it will work for most all users, I'm ashamed to admit.
3) You can over-ride WEFT's choice of glyphs to embed. Just select all the one's that you might possibly use.Here is one that I use from time to time:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.stewartspeak.com/dtr/">http://www.stewartspeak.com/dtr/</a><!-- m -->
Click here for a demo (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.stewartspeak.com/dtr/demo/">http://www.stewartspeak.com/dtr/demo/</a><!-- m -->) Make sure to view the page source.
Here is one that I am toying with that also works but it harder to set up:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr">http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr</a><!-- m -->
Demo here (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/files/sifr/2.0/">http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/files/sifr/2.0/</a><!-- m -->)
The first one demands that your host has gdlib installed and running. The second has no such requirement but you must have a Flash MX to edit the font in the flash movie it uses.
The first uses a setting in the script to set the font to the size you wish. The second fills the space available which is good and bad. Good because it is dynamic and bad because it take mucho tweaking to get it right.