aaronh

My title "Partridge Photography" is not displayed in the proper font when I view it from another computer. Can/should I rasterize the font? Can you embed fonts? What is the best way to deal with that? Also, I noticed in my "portfolio" section that the missing font is appearing! Why?

partridge photography

thanks

Aso

Check out this list of web safe fonts.

Because there are so many variations and releases of operating systems & bundled fonts, there are only very few that are consistent amongst most of them.

If you want to use an 'out-of-the-ordinary' or un-common font, you will either need to use something like sIFR (which injects your font type using flash at runtime) or use a graphics editor to make images of your headings.

marSoul

You can embed your fonts but it will enlarge your final file size...
You can also use Break Aprat method (ctrl+B), on modify menu, which break the fonts into objects that the viewer dont need the installed fonts... Be sure to press it two times !

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Alex Rehm

I would go down the embedding route, granted the file size will be a bit bigger, but it will give you a lot more freedom in the long run.

Breaking apart works as well, but you will not be able to change the text easily afterwards, and especially if you want to dynamically load in content (via xml for example) later on then embedding is the way forward.

To keep file-size low I would suggest you embed:
Upper case
Lower case
Numerals
Punctuation

With respect to sIFR, I am still waiting on a scaleable version of it for text-increase and decrease

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c0un7z3r0

Id go with the break apart option too. If you break apart a sentance once it breaks it into individual letters. eg:

SENTANCE ONE
S.E.N.T.A.N.C.E O.N.E <without the full stops obviously

then if you do break apart again it will break each letter down into a vector graphic as if you have drawn it manually, so useful for non websafe fonts.