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alexia
post Jul 23 2005, 11:53 PM
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hi
I find one font on internet and i want use on my web site
but that font is not standard in windows and user can not view that
users must download and install font to view site in font desing
i want to know how can i use this font on my web site with out downloads user font
My mien is CSS or html code

i want code to automatic show font to user with out manual download font with user
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snlildude87
post Jul 24 2005, 12:21 AM
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You can use the fonts in images. That always works. You can also make it so that you generate the images on the fly with PHP. Either way, you can use the font that you like, and your visitors will see it.
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strawberrie
post Jul 24 2005, 01:50 AM
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Yup, I second snlildude's suggestion. Unless you're planning some massive paragraphs with this particular font, just settle for images. It works nicely and looks good too! (once again, as long as it's not some 100MB image file XD)
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post Jul 24 2005, 06:33 AM
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This is not a failproof solution, but I heard it does work, I tried it at one time BUT because I used external CSS it didn't work (the program creates inline css and I ended up with conflicts etc etc so I gave up after finding out that a lot of webbies had similar issues)

Google for WEFT (it's an MS product that only uses the letters you use of a certain font, and then creates an OEF or EOF file so that visitors of your site can see the font, without having it installed on the pc - but like I said it's not fail proof)
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post Jul 24 2005, 09:54 AM
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I have tried using that Microsoft thing before and it didn't work (causing conflicts left right and centre) so I made the text an image and used that. If you are planning on writing paragraphs with this font then use a web-safe font that is easy to read.
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post Jul 25 2005, 02:00 PM
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QUOTE(snlildude87 @ Jul 23 2005, 09:21 PM)
You can use the fonts in images. That always works. You can also make it so that you generate the images on the fly with PHP. Either way, you can use the font that you like, and your visitors will see it.
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Too lazy, but do you hace the php code to generate images on the fly using some font?
Thanks.
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alexia
post Jul 26 2005, 07:21 PM
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But if i user font i image my site is very big
Oh think 10000 ta image its really eat big bandwith
but thanks to all friends to help me
If i can use that with css is to be very good
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post Oct 1 2005, 08:22 PM
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QUOTE(alexia @ Jul 26 2005, 11:21 AM)
But if i user font i image my site is very big
Oh think 10000 ta image its really eat big bandwith
but thanks  to all friends to help me
If i can use that with css is to be very good
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There is a great solution, which does not take any dowloading, is smaller than a whole bunch of images, and easily changed.

But, it requires flash. You can make an empty document with a white background (or whatever color the background of your site is), and make a dynamic text box. If this font is installed in your system, select the text box and then choose the font you want it to be.
Click on the "character" button. Click on specify ranges and select uppercase, lowercase, numerals, and punctuation. This way flash includes all of those characters of the font. Next give the dynamic text box a variable (example text). Now upload the swf, and call it the name of your font. Then whenever you want this text on your site, place the swf there, and add the variable text to the url.


Example:
www.yoursite.com/nameoffont.swf?text=put whatever text you want to show up here!!!

You can use the same swf for all the text on your site. This saves space, and the swf will be small because the only thing in it is the font information. To change or update the text just change the varialble in your source!!!!

If you have any questions just post it here, i will be happy to answer them. rolleyes.gif
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post Oct 1 2005, 08:44 PM
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I think that there is some way you can use a font that is located on the same server (FTP/upload the font file to a folder of your site), but I do not remember exactly how you include it in your page. Best bet would be an image...

Sorry I can't help and hope you get it working!