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Introduction
dynamic fonts
are one of the latest developments in HTML design. Instead of relying on the default fonts that users have in their browsers,
web authors can now create pages using the fonts they have on their systems, with the assurance that those pages will display in a browser with their font formatting intact.
TrueDoc and Dynamic Fonts
behinedynamic fonts
is a technology from Bitstream called TrueDoc. When built into authoring tools and web browsers, TrueDoc provides an easy and secure way to transfer font data from a web author's server to a user's browser. If a web author includes Calligraphic 421 or Exotic 350 Bold in the headline of an HTML document, that's what users see in their browsers.
How Dynamic Fonts Work for Web Authors
dynamic fonts
let you, the web author, use your installed fonts in a web document. You can create a font file for an HTML document with any
TrueDoc-enabled authoring tool, like Netscape Composer. The authoring tool captures characters from the fonts you use, and stores them in a PFR (Portable Font Resource, a highly compact data file). Then you post the PFR and the HTML document on your web site.
How Dynamic Fonts Work in Web Browsers
To view
dynamic fonts
, you need Netscape Communicator 4.03 (or higher) for any platform, or
Internet Explorer 4 (or higher) for Windows and the Microsoft Font Smoother.
dynamic fonts,
are downloaded with an HTML page, the same way as GIF and JPEG images are. A browser that can display TrueDoc font files, such as Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer, renders the fonts on the screen (or on a printer). Browsers that cannot display TrueDoc fonts use alternate fonts on the user's system.
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