embedding fonts
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- doesnotexist
how can i do this on mac? im reading about this WEFT thing, but seems like it's only for peecee's. i could use my pc, but id rather use my mac.
help anyone?
word.
- DesignThis0
There is no universally supported html font embedding procedure. Don't even bother with it. I was just talking to my peeps at Bitstream about their PFR technology which has long been abandoned by every browser, and by Bitstream themselves.
The only reliable technique is to for your visitors to have the specified font installed locally, then call it in your CSS.
In the long run, however, even this is pointless unless it's a professionally hinted TrueType or 'Flash' pixelfont, as OSX is the only environment that antialiases html text. Without manual hinting, any font will look like crap on PC.
- welded0
There are techniques using a bit of dynamic text in Flash which is embedded in a regular HTML page, such as for news headings, but that's really all they're good for. I second the "don't even bother."
- DesignThis0
As for the Flash solution, there's a similar way with just PHP to spit dynamic gifs.
- welded0
Ya, that's another idea. I wonder what the server overhead for something like that would be. I guess it would depend on if they were cached server-side, etc...
- DesignThis0
No caching... PHP takes a serverside TTF and spits the gifs to your specifications. Not sure how it happens or what's involved, but any PHP nutter should be able to swing it.
- doesnotexist0
hmmm, guess i should learn some php.
using fonts that are good between pc and mac is just boring me at the moment though.
thanks for the input!
- unresort0
Jon, i think he's talking about copy, not headlines/titles. please do not use sIFR for copy.
(you already know that)