Not sure how this site is doing things, but products like FAIRY (http://www.em2-solutions.com/apps/fairy/fairy.htm from the company formerly known as Borware) have been around for quite some time.
MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sreedhar.M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 9:40 AM Subject: How the regional Online- News papers are able to display all the characters Hi , I would like to know how the regional news paper websites are able to display all the characters through webbrowser without asking the user to download any new fonts.When I viewed the source , there was a link to a file with " .pfr " extension.can anybody tell me how to open these files and what is it meant for? More over it the site is not using any unicode fonts.How they are able to render the text in regional languages so clearly. You can just visit the following site and send me Your comments regarding my questions. http://www.eenadu.net Thanks in Advance. with Regards, Sreedhar.M