Embedded fonts

SabrinaP posted this at 04:59 — 23rd August 2000.

Joined: Mar 1999

How can a piece of text on a webpage be viewed in a font where the user doesn't have the font installed? ex: webdings font

Is this what you call an Embedded Font?

Any help?
Thanks,
Sabrina

Vincent Puglia posted this at 14:01 — 23rd August 2000.

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Hi Sabrina,

I'm on shaky ground here.
To paraphrase: A font by any other name....
If the user doesn't have the font, you can offer to download it. Note: "offer". If the user refuses the download, either the closest font to the one intended is used or nothing is displayed.

The following is from O'Reilly's Dynamic HTML the definitive reference:

for IE

@font-face {
font-family:familyName;
font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal;
src:url("someFont.eot")
}
For NN:

@fontdef url("someName.pfr")

Hope this helps
Vinny

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SabrinaP posted this at 19:12 — 23rd August 2000.

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Ah... eot format, I sense a microsoft product the reason for the format... anyways, I think it was WEFT that's needed. I download it as soon as i get the chance.

Thanks for the coding!
Sabrina

Vincent Puglia posted this at 03:04 — 25th August 2000.

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Joined: Dec 1999

Hi Sabrina,
You're welcome.
Vinny