[thelist] forcing a website font
John C Bullas (soton.ac.uk relay)
jcbullas at nildram.co.uk
Fri Mar 12 04:37:08 CST 2004
At 09:56 12/03/2004, you wrote:
>>>Ok forcing a font... is it possible to force a font to be read from a
>>>browser
>>>even though it is not installed on the clients machine? Perhaps a
>>>detect or a
>>>popup if the font is not on the local machine?
>>
>>What is WEFT all about?
>>
>>http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft2/default.htm
>>
>>is that a way to enforce it but is that only MSIE 5+???
>
>you can embed fonts into your page, but when we did it a couple of years
>ago we found it exceptionally temperamental and eventually the client got
>us to pull it.
Same experience here, it only seems to work with the client over my
shoulder and not at his place ;)
Alternative is to use embedded transparent images of the text in the right
font <botch up>
FB
>there's a very basic guide at
>http://www.ssi-developer.net/design/embed-font.shtml
>
>you'll need to do *both* .pfr and .eot (probably with some js to identify
>which browser and serve the appropriate gubbins)
>
>good luck
>
>kx
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