reload (3) - Abstract Fonts

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Not really. Microsoft's font embedding never was a success. There have been javascript based attempts but with todays browser security features it is close to impossible to (even temporarly) install someting - like a font - on a clients system (unless you yeally want to hack the system but then most if not all anti virus programs will stop you again). The only thing you can do is to tell the people that they have to download a - or more - font and keep it open and reload the page. Bothersome procedure. - re: Portable Fonts

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[quote:e9f2756642="alex"]it is possible to embed, just be careful about the size of the font. For example, arial and few others because of their rich international and unicode character support are larger than 200KB.[/quote:e9f2756642] But who would want to embed the Ariel? [quote:e9f2756642="alex"]Add that to the page size... On top of that, not all fonts can be embeded as set by the designer... Unless you get software that can edit those properties.[/quote:e9f2756642] Which of course you should not do. If the copyright holder does not allow embedding you should respect that. As we respect Alex's wish to not to make commercial fonts available for free in this forum by submitting a link to an open directory. Altough sometimes it is tempting ... Yet, even if you would remove the embedding restrictions then still succes is not granted. WEFT3 may work - no guarantee - with IE. But that's about it. Read all you can about embedding and learn that it is (still) a wet dream. Ever wondered why (hardly) anyone is applying WEFT? But uses Flast instead? Maybe - hopefully - one day it will become a standard. Maybe I'll live to see that happen. I doubt it. If, however, your site is for a small community only - family, friends - you could make the font(s) available on your site for download and ask your visitors to install and reload the page. Dumb. True. But then at least you know it will work. But then avoid using commercial font versions. You would be breaking copyright rules. Use a freeware font. Success.