Font Question?

[Jick]

I was wundering if it was possible to put some font files on your server and have a webpage use the fonts off the server instead of the users computer. For example say I made a page with "Verdana" as the font but the user viewing the page dosn't have that font installed, then his computer would use a default font off of his computer so my page would not look right to him when it does to me because I have that font installed on my computer. I need a script that will allow me to upload some font files to my server and use the server as a reference for fonts instead of the users computer so my page will always show up right to any body even if they do not have the right font because it would be on the server! Thanks for any help any body can give me. :)

[Charles]

It's called embeding the font. And since you only want to embed the glyphs on the page and you do not want to embed a font contrary to the terms of the font's copyright you will need some kind of web embedded fonts tool. See http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm. It'll only work with MSIE, but then your users aren't going to care what fonts they see.

[Jick]

Unfourtunatly, I'm on a free hosting server and do not have access to the computer my site is hosted on so I cannot install the software you sujested so does any body else have any ideas on how I could do what I want to do?

[Charles]

Yes, use the software that I suggested. It doesn't work at the server; it pre-process your files, generates the embedded fonts and makes the necessary changes to your file's CSS. Then you upload kit and kaboodle but not WEFT.