[thelist] .gif text

James Drinkwater james at guntrisoft.com
Fri Jul 7 08:58:59 CDT 2000


There is a company called hexweb
which produces a dynamic font burner
this creates dynamic fonts from fonts on
your PC.

See www.clockworkweb.com note the
DaVinci font that it uses for all it's titles.


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James Drinkwater
(james at guntrisoft.com)

Guntrisoft Ltd.
Canary Wharf
1 Park Place,
London
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----- Original Message -----
From: "kev.skindrill" <kev.skindrill at bigfoot.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] .gif text


> >How is it
> > possible to use any kind of special font if it's not in an image
>
> This may come from my naivety about web stuff, but I don't see why it
isn't
> possible to upload a font with your page so that you are not restricted to
> the "web Friendly" fonts. Would this method really be any different to
> uploading an image? You could just have the font in its own file with a
bit
> of HTML to guide the browser in the right direction, e.g.
>
> <font = "Star Trek" src = "startrek.fnt">
>
> After all, when you submit a job on disk to a printer all the fonts must
be
> included otherwise it can't be output correctly. Is this a good idea or am
I
> just (heaven forbid!) wishing for an easy life :)
>
> K
> kev.skindrill at bigfoot.com
> www.skindrill.freeserve.co.uk
>
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