[support] Font Management in Drupal 6

sebastian inforazor at gmail.com
Fri Jun 11 16:09:28 UTC 2010


There are a lot of different techniques you can use, javascript, flash, 
font embedding...

Here is one overview of the different options that should get you started:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/22/rich-typography-on-the-web-techniques-and-tools/

Steve Kessler wrote:
> I am sorry if this is out of scope of the Support list but I am trying 
> to figure out how to implement this on a Drupal site and hope someone 
> out there has maybe done this before.
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> For a client site we have CCK fields in Hebrew. These fields need to be 
> on the same nodes as the English nodes and are not translated content, 
> it is content related to the English. 
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> The problem is we also want everyone to be able to read the Hebrew 
> without having to download a font.  We can get Hebrew characters 
> displayed but what we are looking to do is to include the vowels and 
> some browsers put the vowels next to the letter rather than under the 
> letters when we use Hebrew characters in fonts they should have.
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> We have looked at options like Render (http://drupal.org/project/render) 
> which uses sIFR but that looks like it has problems with Hebrew and the 
> Google Font API does not have Hebrew support yet.
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> If anyone has any advice for this, my team and I would appreciate it.
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> Thanks,
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> Steve
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> Steve Kessler
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