[support] Fonts in drupal

[Gastón Pablo Pérez]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Arul
<alexander.arul at gmail.com>wrote:

> As far as I know, there are a bunch of fonts that are called "web-safe",
> meaning they will be visible on all major operating systems. Arial /
> Helvetica, Times New Roman / Times, Courier New / Courier etc.  Here is a
> full list <http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/fonts.html>
>
> If you use the *"font-family: Arial,Verdana,Georgia;"* CSS attribute, the
> browser will fall back along that list - if Arial isn't available, use
> Verdana, if not, Georgia.
>
> Having said all that, I also have some questions along this line:
>
> 1. Can non-standard fonts be used? If a user has, for example,
> "flowery-cursive" font on their pc, and I specify the the css to use
> "font:flowery-cursive;", will that work?
>

Yes, i'm using a non-standard font, I will going to test if this issue is
working, but in this way the visualization would depend by the final user, I
want that the visualization not depends of the final user.
Can I embed a ttf font into my theme or drupal system?

newly, thanks a lot


> 2. I remember some websites way back in the 1997-1999 period would ask the
> user to download fonts. What is all that about?
>
> Cheers
> Alex
>
> 2009/8/18 Gastón Pablo Pérez <gpperez at gmail.com>
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> The cuestion is, how can i include fonts in drupal 6? I created my theme
>> including a special ttf font, when I view the page in my PC which has the
>> font instaled, I can see the page well, but when I try to see the page from
>> other machine, Drupal changes the fonts.
>>
>> can you help me?
>>
>> thanks a lot
>> --
>> "La perseverancia es un árbol de raíces amargas, pero de frutos muy
>> dulces."
>>
>> Gastón Pablo Perez
>> Email:gpperez at gmail.com <Email%3Agpperez at gmail.com>
>>
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"La perseverancia es un árbol de raíces amargas, pero de frutos muy dulces."

Gastón Pablo Perez
Email:gpperez at gmail.com <Email%3Agpperez at gmail.com>
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