font question

[is0lized]

isnt there a header tag that has a link to the font, so they download it and can see it on a page?

i swear ive sene it before

[Dusty]

An embedded font you mean, or are you talking about something that somehow alerts you that you don't have a font and offers to let you download it? I've never seen or heard of that, but you can embed fonts, though the process is a bit murky as there's two-three ways to do it and none of them work on more than one browser. There's a thread here about it somewhere, if you could dig it up it should explain it in greater detail.

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Here's a link about it:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/fonts/tutorials/tutorial2.html?tw=eg19991102

[is0lized]

i forgot wherei saw it, but you upload it to your site and it downloads automaticly or something so you see that font on the page

[Whisper2Me]

if you ever find that, let me know too please

[meow]

I think you saw it in the thread just below this one.
http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26755

Why don't you read the page Dusty gave a link to? It describes some of it and links to other resources if I remember right.

The prompting stuff could be Bitstream (not a good solution IMHO)
http://www.bitstream.com/

[guitarnerd]

A security thing will pop-up if it is downloading to the hard drive, but if the font is cached, which I don't know if it is possible, it might not

[is0lized]

no, i saw it via view source on some web page

[Jan]

I have often seen pages that say "The font used on this site is WHATEVER, click here to download the WHATEVER.zip file"

I often thought that a bit strange, because without seeing it first, how do you know if you want it or not? :confused:

[is0lized]

tahts not what i want jan :angry2:

[Jan]

I am aware of that is0lized :devious2:

But the same issue applies, how do people know they want to see it on your page anyway?:confused2

[is0lized]

i dunno, just curious how to do it :classic2:

[biggulp]

its @ http://gamershq.madonion.com/

here's how they did it in their css:

@font-face {
font-family: gamershq_font;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: url(BALLCAP0.eot);
}

[meow]

Originally posted by is0lized
no, i saw it via view source on some web page
Can't you read Iso? Why is that you ask a question and when someone gives you the answer you totally ignore it and keep asking? :confused:

FYI embedded fonts are cached in the sense that they are stored in a temp folder. They are not installed on the users machine.

[nag]

You can also add font definition by putting this

<!-- Start link to PFR -->
<LINK REL=fontdef SRC="http://www.site.com/pfr/urdunet.pfr">
<!-- End link to PFR -->
Asbiggulp said you can use that code but it would just cached ....:)

[is0lized]

Originally posted by biggulp
@font-face {
font-family: gamershq_font;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: url(BALLCAP0.eot);
}


that wasnt the url i saw it at, but thanks that what i needed



nag, will that install it? i would rather have it cached then installed.. hehe

[meow]

Originally posted by meow

Can't you read Iso? Why is that you ask a question and when someone gives you the answer you totally ignore it and keep asking? :confused:

FYI embedded fonts are cached in the sense that they are stored in a temp folder. They are not installed on the users machine.

[is0lized]

nice spam meow :)

[meow]

:eek: I give up.