HTML help again. :)

[Howard]

What do you do so that you can type text in a font that other people don't have, but let them see it in its intended appearance, short of making them download and install it? I used to have a program that did this. If anybody can tell me in code, thanks!

 

[Howard]

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[Soccer55]

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but you can use CSS to put an "@font-face" statement in there which describes the font and I think might actually download the font for the person (assuming you put the URL for the font in there). I could be wrong though. Hope this helps.

-Tom

Edit: Just thought about this.....maybe you should contact Zuni somehow, cause I'm sure he'd know

 

[jyrixx]

i'm not sure about soccer's idea. if i was faced with the same problem, i'd probably make some transparent gifs, with the text formatted that way i wanted with the font i wanted. hope this helps

 

[kami]

Gifs optimized properly won't be much bigger than actual html text anyway.

I've never heard of that being possible without downloading the font, though.

 

[Soccer55]

I don't know if my idea would work either cause I've never used it, I've just heard about it I do think the transparent GIF idea is a good one though.....never even thought of doing that.

-Tom

 

[markjrubin]

you're talking about being able to push a font onto a user's screen right? IE has a way to do it, but Netscape doesn't support it, so you're leaving a bunch of people out. The ways that we've got around it was doing images, flash or pdfs.

Mark

 

[Howard]

Damn. Oh well.