How to install a font dynamically

[Lamy]

Please help,
I need to upload a font file from the website (with admin privilages) and
install it on the web server.
Is there a way of doing that or an example?
Kindest Regards
Lamine

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

I assume you are attempting to embed fonts in your web pages? If so,
Microsoft has a tool called the WEFT (Web Embedded Font Tool), which you can
find at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm.
The downside with the tool is it is not supported by all browsers.

Installing on the web server will not help, except as a downloadable font
(using a tool like above). Otherwise, the user needs the font on his system.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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[Lamy]

Many thanks Gregory for your email.
I do use WEFT already for other reason. but this functionality is required
to embed fonts dynamically in a pdf file. The control I am using requires
the fonts to be installed in the server before it can embed them in the pdf.
Hope that is clear.
Thanking you in advance.
Kindest regards
Lamine

 

[darrel]

\> Please help,

I need to upload a font file from the website (with admin privilages) and
install it on the web server.
Is there a way of doing that or an example?
Kindest Regards
Lamine

From a pure licensing standpoint, most commercial fonts would require that
the server have a license for the font. You probably don't want anyone and
everyone uploading a font to your server (if you want to stay within the
licensing of the fonts).

Also, fonts aren't really 'installed' as much as they are placed in a
specific folder in windows. One thought would be to drop uploaded font files
into a folder in IIS and then have a replication script running on the
server itself ready to copy any files into there into the windows font
folder.

-Darrel

 

[Lamy]

Hi Darrel,
Many thanks for your reply.
I am aware of the licensing issue, we tend to make our own fonts.
Thank you again.
Regards
Lamine