I thought it would be rather fun to try out @font-face, but I cannot get it
to work.
I used Microsoft WEFT to generate several embedded fonts and find that the
example
below works when I use my Win XP development machine as both the browser and
Web
server. However if I try to display the same page from another machine (Mac
OS X, Win 2000, or Win XP) using the Win XP development machine as the Web
server then I get the default font displayed rather than the downloaded one.
I have tried IE 5.1 (Mac), IE 6, Netscape 7, Opera, and Safari. I have
tried several different fonts too with the same results. I checked the
IIS logs on the Web server and the .eot files seem to have been
downloaded successfully (result 200 on the first attempt, 304 afterwards as
it is already loaded).
I notice that @font-face seems to have disappeared from the CSS 2.1 spec so
I am beginning to wonder if any browser actually supports it, not even Opera
where the CSS author is CTO.
I also posted this question on microsoft.public.siteserver.css but I found
this group afterwards and it has more activity so I am posting it here too.
I am also curious to know how extensively @font-face is supported and with
what font formats and if I am correct in my understanding that IE supports
only .eot files.
Surely I must doing something wrong? Thanks for any advice,
Clive
<html>
<style type="text/css">
@font-face { font-family: comix;
src: url("http://192.168.0.12/DOTNET/fonts/comicsa0.eot");}
h2 { font-family: comix;
font-size: x-large;}
</style>
<body>
<h2>Hello World</h2>
</body>
</html>
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"Clive Everett" <eo********@mac.com> wrote: I thought it would be rather fun to try out @font-face, but I
cannot get it to work.
It's hard to tell what might be wrong, and even to test what the
situation is, since you didn't post the URL of the test page. This is
one of the situations where a URL is _really_ worth more than a
thousand copies of page content, even if the copies are verbatim (they
usually aren't).
--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
In message <Nc*******************@news1.news.adelphia.net>, Clive
Everett <eo********@mac.com> writes I thought it would be rather fun to try out @font-face, but I cannot get it
to work.
I used Microsoft WEFT to generate several embedded fonts and find that the
example
below works when I use my Win XP development machine as both the browser and
Web
server. However if I try to display the same page from another machine (Mac
OS X, Win 2000, or Win XP) using the Win XP development machine as the Web
server then I get the default font displayed rather than the downloaded one.
I have tried IE 5.1 (Mac), IE 6, Netscape 7, Opera, and Safari. I have
tried several different fonts too with the same results. I checked the
IIS logs on the Web server and the .eot files seem to have been
downloaded successfully (result 200 on the first attempt, 304 afterwards as
it is already loaded).
I notice that @font-face seems to have disappeared from the CSS 2.1 spec so
I am beginning to wonder if any browser actually supports it, not even Opera
where the CSS author is CTO.
I also posted this question on microsoft.public.siteserver.css but I found
this group afterwards and it has more activity so I am posting it here too.
I am also curious to know how extensively @font-face is supported and with
what font formats and if I am correct in my understanding that IE supports
only .eot files.
Surely I must doing something wrong? Thanks for any advice,
Clive
<html>
<style type="text/css">
@font-face { font-family: comix;
src: url("http://192.168.0.12/DOTNET/fonts/comicsa0.eot");}
h2 { font-family: comix;
font-size: x-large;}
</style>
<body>
<h2>Hello World</h2>
</body>
</html>
WEFT-produced .eot files work just fine on Internet Explorer.
Try this: http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/fonttest.htm
Did it look like: http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/FONTS.JPG
If it works OK with your browser, then you should see the first line in
Eaglefeather, the second line in a sans-serif font, and the rest of the
page in Garamond.
If it doesn't work, then the entire page will be in a sans-serif font --
as when seen in Opera.
Let me know which.
Initial thought:
When you created the fonts, did you set the numeric address so that the
server the fonts are to be downloaded from is 'an allowed root'?
regards.
--
Jake
Thank you so much. That was the problem, I had not set up WEFT properly and
so the only allowed root was localhost and not my IP address. I guess that
comes from trying to wing it through WEFT without reading the instructions
and I had assumed that as the font downloaded then it must be OK. Your page
worked perfectly so I copied your page and font and, as Microsoft intended,
it did not work locally so I knew my system was OK and it was, as you said,
a problem with how I had set up my font. I was intrigued by the poem; I
should have realized that there would be some Welsh accounts of the
Anglo-Saxon invasion.
I'm sorry I could not put my test page on the Internet; I have been told my
router's port forwarding isn't working and I need to check it out.
Thanks again,
Clive
"jake" <> wrote in message news:7e**************@gododdin.demon.co.uk... In message <Nc*******************@news1.news.adelphia.net>, Clive
Everett <eo********@mac.com> writesI thought it would be rather fun to try out @font-face, but I cannot get
itto work.
I used Microsoft WEFT to generate several embedded fonts and find that
theexample
below works when I use my Win XP development machine as both the browser
andWeb
server. However if I try to display the same page from another machine
(MacOS X, Win 2000, or Win XP) using the Win XP development machine as the
Webserver then I get the default font displayed rather than the downloaded
one.I have tried IE 5.1 (Mac), IE 6, Netscape 7, Opera, and Safari. I have
tried several different fonts too with the same results. I checked the
IIS logs on the Web server and the .eot files seem to have been
downloaded successfully (result 200 on the first attempt, 304 afterwards
asit is already loaded).
I notice that @font-face seems to have disappeared from the CSS 2.1 spec
soI am beginning to wonder if any browser actually supports it, not even
Operawhere the CSS author is CTO.
I also posted this question on microsoft.public.siteserver.css but I
foundthis group afterwards and it has more activity so I am posting it here
too.
I am also curious to know how extensively @font-face is supported and
withwhat font formats and if I am correct in my understanding that IE
supportsonly .eot files.
Surely I must doing something wrong? Thanks for any advice,
Clive
<html>
<style type="text/css">
@font-face { font-family: comix;
src: url("http://192.168.0.12/DOTNET/fonts/comicsa0.eot");}
h2 { font-family: comix;
font-size: x-large;}
</style>
<body>
<h2>Hello World</h2>
</body>
</html>
WEFT-produced .eot files work just fine on Internet Explorer.
Try this:
http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/fonttest.htm
Did it look like:
http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/FONTS.JPG
If it works OK with your browser, then you should see the first line in
Eaglefeather, the second line in a sans-serif font, and the rest of the
page in Garamond.
If it doesn't work, then the entire page will be in a sans-serif font --
as when seen in Opera.
Let me know which.
Initial thought:
When you created the fonts, did you set the numeric address so that the
server the fonts are to be downloaded from is 'an allowed root'?
regards.
--
Jake
In message <NE*******************@news1.news.adelphia.net>, Clive
Everett <eo********@mac.com> writes Thank you so much. That was the problem, I had not set up WEFT properly and
so the only allowed root was localhost and not my IP address. I guess that
comes from trying to wing it through WEFT without reading the instructions
and I had assumed that as the font downloaded then it must be OK. Your page
worked perfectly so I copied your page and font and, as Microsoft intended,
it did not work locally so I knew my system was OK and it was, as you said,
a problem with how I had set up my font.
Yes, that seemed the most likely explanation as I was unable to run your
script locally -- not having the .eot files on the server was the only
other possibility.
Font embedding works well, although I've found that if used for
headings, a .gif graphics file equivalent tends to be smaller than an
embedded subset -- although if you change its background colour, you
don't have to reproduce the graphic.
It's a very useful tool to have in your armoury when circumstances
dictate.
I was intrigued by the poem; I
should have realized that there would be some Welsh accounts of the
Anglo-Saxon invasion.
I usually use it if I need a lot of body text for testing:
(a) It's in English, not Latin ;-)
(b) It's a 19th century translation, so out of copyright.
It's an interesting poem -- a collection of eulogies for the fallen
Celtic heroes from all over Britain at the battle of Catraeth -- fought
around AD600 in a vain attempt to hold back the English colonisation of
Britain in the centuries following the breakdown of Roman government.
It also has the first written reference to 'King' Arthur -- although the
oldest copies are from the middle ages and we don't know whether it got
added in by the monks who did the copying at that time ;-)
I'm sorry I could not put my test page on the Internet; I have been told my
router's port forwarding isn't working and I need to check it out.
Thanks again,
Clive
[snip]
Regards.
--
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