embedded font?

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Is it possible to imbed a font in a webpage/website so it displays in the
pages?

Alternately, can it be made to install with a prompt when a visitor comes
who doesn't have it?
 
Thanks . . .

The 'Search Help' in FP 2003 failed to locate anything useful on this
subject.

I often use Font GIFS, but find them a little jaggy around the edges when
made transparent.

Also . . . Word Art only takes on installed fonts and so becomes limited.
 
Do not use Word Art - that is even worse than Weft when it comes to Cross
Browser/Platform.
Word Art uses VML graphics and Absolute Positioning.
Absolute Positioning can be a pain if it is not used with care.
VML graphics can only be seen in IE5.5 and later running on Windows
operating systems. The down-level gifs FrontPage produces for other
browsers/systems (if you have the option turned on) are rough and ready -
very poor quality.

Create the Word Art, then do a PrtScrn, paste into a graphics program. Crop
and optimise the WordArt graphic, and save as .gif or .jpg depending on the
colours in use.
Import the result into your web and then use on your page.
 
WordArt is more limited than that...it only works on IE browsers.


| Thanks . . .
|
| The 'Search Help' in FP 2003 failed to locate anything useful on this
| subject.
|
| I often use Font GIFS, but find them a little jaggy around the edges when
| made transparent.
|
| Also . . . Word Art only takes on installed fonts and so becomes limited.
 
I'm new to this and a lot of this information is beyond me. Can you explain
how to make a font-gif?
 
sure,
just open whatever graphics program you like, make a new image in the color,
or with the pattern of what it'll be laid over (usually a page or in a
cell). Then type what you want on it using the graphics program, and save
it as a gif.
in FrontPage, hit file/ import/ file, browse to your newly saved image and
bring it into your web structure.
now all you have to do is lay it on your page and configure the image (alt
tag, etc).

HTH

--
Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

ContentSeed: great tool for web masters,
a fantastic convenience for site owners.
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Make sure you have a right to provide the font for downloading.

If you are like everyone else, would you stop what you are doing, click a link download a font file,
then go to Control Panel to actually install the font, then go back to the site or refresh the page
just to see it in a specific font?

At least with font embedding it is only temporary.
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==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================
 
It is however the user's choice to not download them.
If you want fancy fonts then limit them to titles and headings; and make
them as images.
 
and probably in the process require a system restart after all that (since
fonts are loaded to memory at system-boot/start up).
 

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