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[Paul Bradforth]

On 7/7/00 at 2:25 pm, kev.skindrill at bigfoot.com (kev.skindrill) wrote:

> 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.

Fonts aren't cross-platform compatible, though, are they? So, even if
the browser could work with a font like it works with an image (which I
doubt anyway?) my Mac fonts wouldn't be readable by a Windows
application.

best wishes,

Paul

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