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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Same site as the Netscape issue (still waiting on host tech support for a response for that one), different issue and different question. The lawyers for whom this site is being built are insisting on a specific, non-common font (RotisSansSerif) for use on the text-links on the site -- and they want it on all browsers, not just MSIE. After hearing my explanations about why this is not possible, I've been ordered to "simply create graphics for each text link". After hearing my arguments & pleading about how that would make the site end up on "Web sites that suck" (among other issues), the designer for the site (the one who came up with the overall look & appearance of the thing) said that she's "never had this much trouble about fonts before" from previous folks she's worked with, and that she's always used uncommon fonts & never had an issue. At that point, I told her that I wanted to know what those programmers' secret was, because there's no such way to do it cross-browser that I've ever been able to find in any book or Web resource. Aside from the obvious use of GIF/JPGs, is there any way to use uncommon fonts on a Website & have cross-browser support? I know about Flash, but the site in question doesn't have anything on it that needs or deserves Flash. Will Dreamweaver or Fireworks allow that? Loading...
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