RE: [css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread Peter Williams
> From: david > > Peter Williams wrote: > > One method is Microsoft's WEFT > > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm > > There are other ways, too. Unfortunately, NONE of them have > become even a de facto standard ... > best to avoid dependency on specific fonts.

Re: [css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread david
Peter Williams wrote: From: Arthur Maloney I've got a TT font (barcode128) How do you down load fonts with CSS ? One method is Microsoft's WEFT http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm There are other ways, too. Unfortunately, NONE of them have become even a d

Re: [css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread david
Donna Casey wrote: some fonts won't even show up in a PDF...for example, if you build something in Illustrator that uses a font like Barbara Hand, you have to convert it to paths to make a pdf. FWIW, there's an easy trick to get around that. Install a Postscript printer driver to print to a

RE: [css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread Peter Williams
> From: Christian Heilmann A previous poster asked > > > How do you down load fonts with CSS ? And I stated > > One method is Microsoft's WEFT > > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm > Yeah, that is a great plan. Only works for MSIE and was last updated > in Fe

Re: [css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread Christian Heilmann
> > I've got a TT font (barcode128) > > > > How do you down load fonts with CSS ? > > One method is Microsoft's WEFT > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm Yeah, that is a great plan. Only works for MSIE and was last updated in February 2003. * The web and a br

RE: [css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread Peter Williams
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This may sound like a stupid q but why? I mean, fonts take up > virtually > no space and AFAIK cant be used in a malicious way? Can they? Is this > some old ruling from the old school or is there a valid reason fonts > declared in CSS cant be retrieved upon reques

RE: [css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread Peter Williams
> From: Arthur Maloney > > I've got a TT font (barcode128) > > How do you down load fonts with CSS ? One method is Microsoft's WEFT http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm -- Peter Williams __

Re: [css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread Jan Brasna
I suggest reading http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/ to apply an acceptable method. Or -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com _

Re: [css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread Rob Cochrane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Cochrane wrote: [...] but these are not True Type. To be used a font has to be available on the users machine/device and one cannot install fonts for the user if they do not have the font available. This may sound like a stupid q but why? Well fonts are a f

Re: [css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread Donna Casey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may sound like a stupid q but why? I mean, fonts take up virtually no space and AFAIK cant be used in a malicious way? Can they? Is this some old ruling from the old school or is there a valid reason fonts declared in CSS cant be retrieved upon request? fonts

Re: [css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rob Cochrane wrote: [...] but these are not True Type. To be used a font has to be available on the users machine/device and one cannot install fonts for the user if they do not have the font available. This may sound like a stupid q but why? I mean, fonts take up virtually no space and AF

Re: [css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread Rob Cochrane
Arthur Maloney wrote: Hello css-d, I've got a TT font (barcode128) How do you down load fonts with CSS ? In OenOffice or Word you just choose it,and that way I know the font works. I am assuming you wish to present to your user a unique TT font, in this case a barcode font. In a wor

[css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread Arthur Maloney
Hello css-d, I've got a TT font (barcode128) How do you down load fonts with CSS ? In OenOffice or Word you just choose it,and that way I know the font works. -- Best regards, Arthur mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __