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Downloadable/embedded fonts?

Started by Acf, December 20, 2003, 10:26:19 AM

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Acf

Downloadable/embedded fonts? how do they work and are they crossbrowser?

I would like to use a font as a logo :)

*acf
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Acf

How do you creat them for mozilla and  how do you make a eot or a prf?

http://www.theclash.zenid.net/aliencowfarm/ "should" have had a working eot in te logo :(
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[Unknown]

There's a program out there that makes eot's...... it/they convert ttf's to eot's.  I'm not sure where to find them.

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[Unknown]

Well... I asked my mom.. (she into this sort of thing..) and, according to:
http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,3048,a=108638,00.asp

QuoteMicrosoft WEFT 3.2 is a free download available at www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3. With this utility, you can create one EOT file for each font you wish to embed. You then code the pages to point to the font files by adding a <STYLE> element to the portion of the page. This element takes the following form:

<style type="text/css">
@font-face
{
   font-family: fontname; 
   font-style: italic; 
   font-weight: normal; 
   src: url(fontname.eot);
}
</style>

If that helps.  I think I tried WEFT once before.

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Acf

thanks :) only it doesn't seem to work some how :S
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Cadish


[Unknown]

Sorry.  Just remember that eot files are different from ttf's... I've never tried it, though.

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Peter Duggan

Have you tried some simple Google searches for 'embedded fonts', 'embedded fonts security', 'embedded fonts copyright' etc?

I looked at all of this years ago and decided that it simply wasn't a good idea from these perspectives, not to mention that some folk (see http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Q_20333182.html, also dredged up by Google) simply won't download them!

Acf

Quote from: Peter Duggan on December 22, 2003, 04:01:41 PM
Have you tried some simple Google searches for 'embedded fonts', 'embedded fonts security', 'embedded fonts copyright' etc?

I looked at all of this years ago and decided that it simply wasn't a good idea from these perspectives, not to mention that some folk (see http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Q_20333182.html, also dredged up by Google) simply won't download them!

Ive tried google but could get it to work so that why posted here...
But i didn't use your keywords :), i think you are right that it is just not a good option... :(

I realy need to learn flash :P
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Anguz

Quote from: </Acf> on December 20, 2003, 10:26:19 AM
I would like to use a font as a logo :)

*acf

you know, if it's just for the logo, I'd advice you to save yourself the trouble and create an image with the font you like... it'll also load faster if it's well compressed ;)
Cristián Lávaque http://cristianlavaque.com

Acf

Quote from: Anguz on December 22, 2003, 11:39:29 PM
Quote from: </Acf> on December 20, 2003, 10:26:19 AM
I would like to use a font as a logo :)

*acf

you know, if it's just for the logo, I'd advice you to save yourself the trouble and create an image with the font you like... it'll also load faster if it's well compressed ;)

I know ;) just like to fool around a bit :P
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