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seyt0n
02-12-2009, 09:17 AM
I have downloaded fonts to be used in my webpage but for some reason
when transporting the webpage to othe pc's the fonts do not come up.
Obviously that is 'cause not every pc contains that/those fonts in their font directory... Is there anyway I cant have my page show the fonts regardless of that?

gnomeontherun
02-12-2009, 09:23 AM
Not an easy way no. HTML doesn't have the ability to offer fonts, but there are a few options.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dynatext
http://novemberborn.net/sifr3

and more if you google similar things. The concept is that your server can make an image (or flash) file with the text inside of it with the font, getting around the fact that you can't reliably use custom fonts. There is hope for this in the future with CSS3, but no widespread support for that.

seyt0n
02-12-2009, 09:26 AM
Thanks alot... I'll have a look, I understand what you mean and it makes sense. Thanks once again I'll keep you updated on my progress