![]() Preserved Topic: download a font set to a users PC to view web page in that font (Page 1 of 1) |
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Bipolar (III) Inmate From: |
![]() This is a bit of a tngle I'm in, I've made a web page in a specific font(note specific this excludes typical default font sets on most browsers), I want that the clients browser should detect for the fonts availability and if it isn't available it should prompt the user to download the font that the page is displayed in. Any ideas on how to do that |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist with Finglongers From: Germany |
![]() sorry, but nope. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: Den Haag: The Royal Residence |
![]() You could friendly ask the user te be kind and if he/she wants to download the fonts. Put some detailed instructions with it what to do with the fonts. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers From: Cell 53, East Wing |
![]() I'm afraid being able to embded fonts or download them to someone's computer was soemthing that was toyed with some years ago but rejected. It seemed like a good diea but it would have led to an awful lot of bloated sites. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: Cranleigh, Surrey, England |
![]() This wasn't ur intention (I hope), but I'd just like to point out another problem with this possbility other than bloated sites. All of us here being computer genii, I guess most of us know that the xbox has been hacked. One of the possble hacks is based on an exploit in the font loading system in the xbox, allowing a buffer overflow and, from there, arbitrary code to be run. Being an MS console with MS software therefore, could a similar exploit exist in windows? I doubt it, but I suppose it's possible. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: Den Haag: The Royal Residence |
![]() Ofcourse if you think the font is an improvement to the site you could try and persuade the user to download the font and install it in his system. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: schillmania.com |
![]() You can download and install fonts "on-the-fly" as I understand (I toyed with it a few years ago) in IE, with Microsoft's WEFT (Windows Embedded Font Tool.) |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: 127.0.0.1 |
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Obsessive-Compulsive (I) Inmate From: Silicon Scally, UK |
![]() Besides WEFT there was also Bitstream's TrueDoc - this required a convertor to make the .PFR font resources. I haven't seen either WEFT or TrueDoc used for some time. |