Font Display Question

[Peter]

Someone will say, 'Are you kidding' but i will ask anyway.
If i have an unusual or unique type font (ttf of course) that i use for
documents or e-mail, my guess is it will not appear as i send it if the
person on the other end doesn't have that particular font on their PC.
A friend uses Incredimail and he sez some of his friends cannot view his
messages in anything but a 'standard' typeface(?)......Is this so? it makes
sense to me, but i really don't know.
thanks for any feedback..

 

[Barry Brindisi]

Itend to use Clarendon Blk BT & Arrus Blk BT for much of my e-mail and
web pages. Yet, if you go to http://www.christ-lighthouse.com; you're
going to read the font that your web browser chooses as it default, if
it doesn't have those font. The same goes for your e-mail client. I'd
illustrate here; however, NNTP doesn't allow for such fonts. Bummer.

 

[Peter]

don't know how that relates to my question.(?)

 

[Daniel L. Belton]

Someone will say, 'Are you kidding' but i will ask anyway.
If i have an unusual or unique type font (ttf of course) that i use for
documents or e-mail, my guess is it will not appear as i send it if the
person on the other end doesn't have that particular font on their PC.
A friend uses Incredimail and he sez some of his friends cannot view his
messages in anything but a 'standard' typeface(?)......Is this so? it makes
sense to me, but i really don't know.
thanks for any feedback..

This is so... There are some documents that can "embed" the fonts into
the file, but that makes the file a lot larger.

 

[Malke]

This is so... There are some documents that can "embed" the fonts
into the file, but that makes the file a lot larger.

The simple answer is "yes, Peter, you're right". If you create an email
with "fancy" unusual fonts and the recipient doesn't have that font on
his system, it will display in whatever font is designated the default
substitution font. This is by design, because the prime purpose of
email and documents is communication and there are many different kinds
of computer systems in use in the world. If you need to make a document
that will look the same on many different kinds of systems, then you
can use Adobe Acrobat to create it. Note that this is the *creation*
program, and is quite expensive. The Acrobat Reader that is free
enables people to *read* files created in Acrobat (.pdf files).

Hope that helped,

Malke

 

[Alex Nichol]

Someone will say, 'Are you kidding' but i will ask anyway.
If i have an unusual or unique type font (ttf of course) that i use for
documents or e-mail, my guess is it will not appear as i send it if the
person on the other end doesn't have that particular font on their PC.

That is right. It would be a quite unacceptable overhead for every
e-mail to include the font used (the font file being typically 70K
bytes) in every message, so it has to depend on what is already at the
other end. And if the one needed is not there the mail client will do
the best it can.

So if you have someone you want to correspond with in a fancy font, make
sure he has it as well first, and reserve use of the font to mail to
that recipient only