The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154016   Message #3610993
Posted By: JohnInKansas
19-Mar-14 - 06:26 PM
Thread Name: Tech: A font for your song book.
Subject: RE: Tech: A font for your song book.
As has been pointed out, your browser can only display text using fonts that are installed on your computer. You can specify a font (typeface) for something you post, but the person reading what you post will see it that way only if they have the font on their machine.

If you really want to show someone here what your version of something looks like, about the safest way to do it would be to post a .pdf of it somewhere, and then post a link to the .pdf file here.

Some programs allow you to "embed fonts" so that the font you want the reader/receiver to use is part of the file, but so far as I've seen html doesn't allow that; and even if you copy from a .doc that has the font embedded, when you paste to an html post the "embedded font" information is lost.

With WinXP, I believe, Microsoft came up with a "new typeface" (TrueType) that was supposed to be better for web display, and it should be on almost everyone's computer. Unfortunately I haven't used it much so I'm not sure what it was called, although it might have been Calibri(??). My link to where Microsoft gave their information on that preference apparerently disappeared when Microsoft decided "our users are too stupid to use anything complicated so we won't tell you this," and deleted their "Knowledge Base."

John