hi to all

i want to check whether a particular font is available on the client machine before my page is rendered. if not so the font should be downloaded from my site.

how can i achieve this?

Anubhav Kumar

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Anubhav Kumar
http://anubhavtimepass.blogspot.com/

Interesting question, I am not sure you can do this easily. Anyhow, are you aware you can set as many font types as you want in a style sheet? Eg:

TD {FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica}
In the above example if verdana is not installed it will look for arial, if not helvetica etc....

Additionally, IMO if I was browsing a web site and got prompted to download a font there is no way I would accept the download. People don’t accept downloads like they used to now days, would you?

Also:
1..Not all fonts are compatible with all machines
2..Fonts must be installed correctly by someone with administrative privileges, a general user couldn’t install a font even if they wanted to.


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Matt

hi Matt
thanks for response.
I want to point out that ...
1.My site is targeted to Indian surfers mainly.
2.I have to provide content in the national language that is hindi.
3. I have no idea about using embeded fonts in dynamic pages like the one provided by Microsoft's WEFT Tool

Please guide me...

Anubhav Kumar

Hi,

http://www.spoono.com/html/tutorials...embeddingfonts


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Rajani

rajanikrishna

Looks like a very useful link! have you used this tool?

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Matt

Dear Rajani

thanks for the link.
What about font embeding in the dynamic pages.
Weft Tool asks for the static html pages to apply font embeding

Anubhav Kumar

Hi,

http://members.tripod.com/~bhaavana/embedded/faq.html

This might be useful for u.


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Rajani

rajanikrishna

have you used this tool?


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Matt