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Title: Downloadable/embedded fonts?
Post by: Acf on December 20, 2003, 10:26:19 AM
Downloadable/embedded fonts? how do they work and are they crossbrowser?

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

*acf
Title: Re: Downloadable/embedded fonts?
Post by: Anguz on December 20, 2003, 11:41:57 AM
http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa040202a.htm
Title: Re: Downloadable/embedded fonts?
Post by: Acf on December 20, 2003, 02:02:30 PM
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 :(
Title: Re: Downloadable/embedded fonts?
Post by: [Unknown] on December 20, 2003, 03:32:57 PM
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.

-[Unknown]
Title: Re: Downloadable/embedded fonts?
Post by: [Unknown] on December 20, 2003, 03:37:33 PM
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.

-[Unknown]
Title: Re: Downloadable/embedded fonts?
Post by: Acf on December 20, 2003, 06:24:27 PM
thanks :) only it doesn't seem to work some how :S
Title: Re: Downloadable/embedded fonts?
Post by: Cadish on December 22, 2003, 07:19:03 AM
Can't get it to work neither... :-[
Title: Re: Downloadable/embedded fonts?
Post by: [Unknown] on December 22, 2003, 03:47:57 PM
Sorry.  Just remember that eot files are different from ttf's... I've never tried it, though.

-[Unknown]
Title: Re: Downloadable/embedded fonts?
Post by: 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!
Title: Re: Downloadable/embedded fonts?
Post by: Acf on December 22, 2003, 04:08:54 PM
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
Title: Re: Downloadable/embedded fonts?
Post by: 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 ;)
Title: Re: Downloadable/embedded fonts?
Post by: Acf on December 23, 2003, 06:15:05 AM
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