Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper

@lists.css-discuss.org Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 18:41:57 +0300 Subject: Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper Stephen Tang wrote: I encountered a peculiar use case. The business desires to display a small amount of text as a handwritten font. They want

Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper

Stephen Tang wrote: The main problem is that our users would like whatever font they choose to be shown to all visitors of their site, and that pretty much pushes the implementation towards sIFR and similar Flash-based techniques. This does not address your original problem regarding a

Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper

: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper Why not use a background image of a wrapper to simulate the lines? My first thought was sIFR for the fonts, but I don't think it supports the lines. Is there anything that supports this? Regards, Vladislav http

Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper

Chris, Ryan, Thanks for your kind words! CSS offers many possibilities, but in some cases it would be nice if it had more specific properties and control to avoid recurring to tricks, which frequently have a dark side :-) In this case, at least the javascript should be made more robust before

Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Stephen Tang clowwizarder...@gmail.com wrote: I encountered a peculiar use case.  The business desires to display a small amount of text as a handwritten font.  They want the handwritten font sitting on blue lines.  This would simulate the effect of writing in

Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper

HI Bruno, I'm sorry that I wasn't clear on this. The text would sit on the baselines, such that in cursive handwriting, parts of letters that need to go below the baseline will do so (i.e. a part of lowercase cursive g will be below the baseline). Thus, the URL you gave is the type of effect I

Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper

I missed this the first time but glad you pointed out that link... wow I have so much still to learn with CSS. My client is a graphic designer and demands absoulute lines so css is a must for me. Just when I think I am getting a handle on things I will see something like this and realize

Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper

Bruno, I kneel at your feet. This is awesome. I'm trying to solve a similar problem, and have struggled with getting the solutions to work. I've been stuck at using background images, which fail of course when the user changes the font size. Your solution does not suffer this issue. Thanks so

[css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper

Hi, I encountered a peculiar use case. The business desires to display a small amount of text as a handwritten font. They want the handwritten font sitting on blue lines. This would simulate the effect of writing in a notebook. My first thought was sIFR for the fonts, but I don't think it

Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper

Why not use a background image of a wrapper to simulate the lines? My first thought was sIFR for the fonts, but I don't think it supports the lines.  Is there anything that supports this? Regards, Vladislav http://www.ovalpixels.com/

Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper

Stephen Tang wrote: I encountered a peculiar use case. The business desires to display a small amount of text as a handwritten font. They want the handwritten font sitting on blue lines. This would simulate the effect of writing in a notebook. You could do something like this: Markup: p