>
> You're not giving all the information needed here, but let me take a
> shot at it. HTML and CSS don't know or care about fonts. They will
> simply transmit a request to display a font, but for the request to be
> honored by the browser, the font(s) must exist on the user's system. If
> you specify Frutiger in a web page, only a few of your visitors are
> likely to see the font.
>
Also available is WEFT which creates .eot files that can be transported
via http to the client browser.
That's a IE only feature and subject to the client browser having
"allow downloaded fonts" switched to 'yes' and "ignore specified
fonts" set to 'no'. Also the conversion from .ttf to .eot is flaky and
some .ttfs will not convert - and there are unicode issues.
So - in short, specifiying typeface atrtributes is a shot in the dark and
not to be relied on. HTML purists insist that browser client settings should
never be interfered with. YMMV.
To make this on-topic ...
Rather than making .gif/.jpg/.png images of typefaces wait for SVG.
It's a W3C draft for Scalable Vector Graphics. It is already implemented
(in a draft form) in Illustrator 9.0 (Adobe) and in beta testing in other
company's products (like JASC's TrajectoryPro - a dedicated svg tool).
What makes this on-topic is that SVG is fully scriptable in many interesting
ways - i.e. CF can easily write the ascii descriptions of .svg. The possiblities
are intriguing. Has a direct XML and javascript interface. Since it is vector
any typeface will be very clean and not dependent on what is on client
machine - the svg tools develop the vector description of text ...
Easily a cheap replacement for flash/etc. Current draft implementations
call for an activex viewer download by browser, but that is supposedly to
change within one or two browser update cycles.
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/
http://www.adobe.com/svg/
n.b.
.svg is not at all like .wmf there are no rasterized byte chunks that need to
be transported.
Pan
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