Re: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-09 Thread Christian Montoya
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Nick Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @font-face supported by Firefox 3.1+ (currently beta), Safari 3+, Opera 10+ (currently alpha) and internet explorer 5+ only problem Firefox 3+, Safari 3+, Opera 10+ support raw font formats (OTF, TTF) only IE supports EOT

RE: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-08 Thread Ted Drake
08, 2008 3:13 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Downloading Fonts As a general rule you cannot use non-system fonts on the web, as the end user needs to have them installed as well (I think this is what you're asking?). One workaround is to use sIFR ( http

RE: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-08 Thread Patrick Lauke
Ted Drake Safari and firefox3 support the @font-face attribute. I don't know the status of Opera and IE8. I think current Opera doesn't, but the next version (Opera 10, currently available as alpha) will http://www.opera.com/browser/next/ P Patrick H. Lauke

Re: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Marvin Hunkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. rebuilding my site. and i have the following fonts in my style sheet. georgia, century school book, courrier, new courrier, comic ms, and others. but i notice, that on my local hard disk, or when i did have it on

Re: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Marvin Hunkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. rebuilding my site. and i have the following fonts in my style sheet. georgia, century school book, courrier, new courrier, comic ms, and others. but i notice, that on my local hard disk, or when i did have it on

Re: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-08 Thread Joe Ortenzi
macs can run windows fonts as well. There may be conflicts though if you run the same font from both os's simultaneously though. but loading fonts can be a resource burden as they all load into RAM at startup. I recommend the excellent and free Linotype http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX

Re: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-08 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 12:33 -0800, David Hucklesby wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Marvin Hunkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. rebuilding my site. and i have the following fonts in my style sheet. georgia, century school book, courrier, new courrier, comic ms, and others.

Re: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-08 Thread Andrew Cunningham
Just remember these are older versions of the fonts and will have different character repertoires and differences in the OpenType tables. But then again Vista and XP use different versions of the core fonts as well. On Tue, December 9, 2008 8:25 am, Dave Hall wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 12:33

Re: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-08 Thread Nick Cowie
@font-face supported by Firefox 3.1+ (currently beta), Safari 3+, Opera 10+ (currently alpha) and internet explorer 5+ only problem Firefox 3+, Safari 3+, Opera 10+ support raw font formats (OTF, TTF) only IE supports EOT format only Suggested reading (and tutorial)

[WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-07 Thread Marvin Hunkin
Hi. rebuilding my site. and i have the following fonts in my style sheet. georgia, century school book, courrier, new courrier, comic ms, and others. but i notice, that on my local hard disk, or when i did have it on the web, but closed it for copyright issues. it was only displaying arial. did