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Re: Custom fonts

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On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:07:38 -0800, Roedy Green
<see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>Has anyone used a scheme where you use a proprietary font on your
>webpages or in your Applet. 

Tiresias is a public domain font for the visually challenged.  I have
set up some webpages with it using the @font-face feature. You can see
if I got it right by looking at
http://mindprod.com/carol/carols.html

I have posted the lyrics to 81 Christmas carols. If all is working,
you should see them in large Tiresias font. 

If it does not work, you can still install the font manually.
Unfortunately, I have it in TTF form only and the font is locked so I
can't convert it to other formats.

I have yet to uninstall Tiresias and test with all the browsers to see
which support it.  I suspect IE will fail since it want s eot fonts.

Given that fonts are just data, it should be possible to support all
fonts everywhere. I don't know why there are so many formats.
Adobe encrypted PS to start, which forced the creation of TrueType,
but I don't know why the others were created.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
If you can't remember the name of some method, 
consider changing it to something you can remember.
 

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Custom fonts Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-16 09:07 -0800
  Re: Custom fonts Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-12-16 09:44 -0800
    Re: Custom fonts Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-16 13:26 -0800
  Re: Custom fonts Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-19 20:48 -0800
    Re: Custom fonts Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-12-20 00:22 -0800
    Re: Custom fonts Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-12-20 06:37 -0400
      Re: Custom fonts Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-20 15:11 -0800
        Re: Custom fonts Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-12-20 20:18 -0400
          Re: Custom fonts Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-12-21 09:27 +0000
            Re: Custom fonts Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-22 06:59 -0800
          Re: Custom fonts Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-22 06:45 -0800
  Re: Custom fonts Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-22 06:55 -0800
    Re: Custom fonts Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-22 07:03 -0800

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