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markofkane · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA

In Windows, if you have the fonts installed, you would use <font face="Kristen ITC">message</font> and it would show using that font.

I tried that with one of my installed fonts in Puppy, and no difference.

russoodle · Posted: Fri 12 Jun 2009, 13:05 Post subject:

You live and learn, huh...from what i've been reading, markofkane, it seems that not all fonts are compatible with all OSes, so perhaps that's the problem..?

Knowing squat about the ins and outs of the properties of glyphs and typefaces, i don't understand why some will work in Win or Mac but not in Linux...i've just come across a site - http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium_download - that has downloads for one of its fonts, (among others), packaged in .zip format for Win, Mac and 'many Gnu/Linux' distros, + a special Debian/Ubuntu package, so they must have different quirks for different platforms.

disciple · Posted: Sat 13 Jun 2009, 20:23 Post subject:

What browser are you using?

disciple · Posted: Sat 13 Jun 2009, 20:43 Post subject:

People after fonts may also want to look at
Puppy needs a font pack

I'm not sure if there was much else there of use, but I did post a link to a page where you could see all the (free) fonts included in Debian.

markofkane · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA

The trouble is knowing the correct name, but I can find out in abiword. Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 14 Jun 2009, 07:46 Post subject:

markofkane · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA

Thanks!!

HeathenKaer · Joined: 26 Jul 2009 Posts: 11 Location: Florida

I was looking for fontforge (I had used it with good results prior to leaving Windoze). Lo and behold, I found it -- all ready-made in a nice little pet.
Thank you so much!
These forums have been invaluable in my transition to Linux and to Puppy.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 14 Aug 2009, 05:48 Post subject: Re: Thank you!

puppyite · Posted: Mon 17 Aug 2009, 10:15 Post subject:

What follows is my attempt to shed some light on browsers and web page fonts (if anyone cares):

Markofkane:
Thanks. It seems that font type HTML won't work in Puppy Linux, it seems all fonts look the same on webpages. Color works and size works. Maybe I'm wrong, lol. Laughing.

Markofkane:
In Windows, if you have the fonts installed, you would use <font face="Kristen ITC">message</font> and it would show using that font. I tried that with one of my installed fonts in Puppy, and no difference.

Ttuuxxx:
Suggested to markofkane how he could change Preferences in Seamonkey to make any font appear on web pages. The only caveat to this is if you build a web page using a font that is not installed on the visitors HD then their browser will use the font selected in their browser’s preferences.

The screen shot in ttuuxxx’s post shows six possible font settings. AFAIK these options are typical of all browsers. The fonts used for these setting however are dependant on the OS used by the web site visitor. In my experience people rarely change these settings but YMMV.

See: Complete Guide to Pre-Installed Fonts in Linux, Mac, and Windows

See: 8 fonts you probably don’t use in css, but should

Incidentally Font tags have been depreciated by the W3C in favor of CSS. See: http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_fonts.asp for alternatives to font tags.

abushcrafter · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 1447 Location: England