I just made a new website and I made most of it in two special fonts called 'j.d.' and 'jenkins'. The website looks perfect on my comp. but on other peoples' comps the font is different (basic arial) and the allignment of the links (with the special fonts) is all out of whack. I really don't know what to do to fix this problem. If anyone has ANY suggestions I would greatly, greatly appreciate it. This fuckin webpage thing is driving me insane

7/31/2006 2:53:25 PM

use standard fonts - or have every single user install the font on their pc

7/31/2006 2:54:13 PM

If you want to retain some special, non-standard font you'll probably have to end up making a transparent gif with your text. And even then it won't auto-wrap for you.

If you can settle for a different font and you are more concerned about alignment than anything you can use a common font where each character takes up the same amount of horizontal space.

[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 3:01 PM. Reason : -]

7/31/2006 2:57:15 PM

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"If you want to retain some special, non-standard font you'll probably definately have to end up making a transparent gif [or other image file] with your text."

to recap:
1) if you want to use any non-standard fonts on your webpage (basically anything other than Ariel, Times New Roman, Courier, Helvetica), then you'll have to create an image of the text, and embed the image. Any font you use on your site must be installed on the viewer's computer to show up correctly, and that short list are basically the only fonts you have garunteed to be installed on almost all computers already. There are a thousand reasons you generally don't want to convert text to images (can't be resized, can't be easily edited, can't be searched, doesn't wrap automatically, picture quality worse than native text) and usually only one reason to do it: it "looks good", although that's often arguable.
2) for anything other than logos and special buttons, you're almost always better off to use a standard font. Standard fonts are generally easier to read than specialty fonts and help maintain some semblance of professionalism.

7/31/2006 3:24:17 PM

thanks a lot for the advice. i think ill just go with the basic stuff

7/31/2006 3:34:15 PM

it really pisses me off that MS dropped embedded fonts and or that no one else ever picked em up.

FYI you can use Adobe SVG files to do embedded fonts (sort of) these days.

7/31/2006 3:47:15 PM

One more thing... if i do change all these 'special fonts' to normal ones, will this make the allignment of the links (that are now done in special font) to look normal (like they do on my computer) and not all scattered about (like they do on other peoples' computers right now..) ?

7/31/2006 5:36:45 PM

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"it really pisses me off that MS dropped embedded fonts and or that no one else ever picked em up. "

what happened here was web developer fags didn't use it b/c they'd rather wait for an arbitrary standards body to release an ambiguous standard.

[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 5:57 PM. Reason : +u]

7/31/2006 5:48:05 PM

^^ i still don't udnerstand what you mean my "allignment of links". can you just post your URL?

7/31/2006 5:54:09 PM