Adding Fonts Options

[Anatole]

I just followed This Turtorial and I got almost to the end. I'm tryinig to embed the Acens font from Dafont website.

I've got to the point where I am supposed to list the website the font is to be created for, using the WEFT program, and I list Xanga.com. I'm not sure where I supposed to store the .eot file, so I just put it on my C drive.

It doesn't seem to complete the embeding. I don't know if the .eot file gets downloaded, and I don't see Acens listed in my drop down menu on Xanga tools bar.

Also, I don't want to use the font on the entire website, just on my posts. Do I need to imput a code into my custom module for that?

Thanks.

[talcumpowder]

..... Custom header. It goes in Custom header. You need to edit the stylesheet. It can be found in Xanga Scripts on the last page.
And you need to upload the .eot file someplace.
[ http://geocities.yahoo.com ] <- Accepts .eot files.

[Anatole]

Right now I am using a default header. If I have to put it into my custome header, won't that mean I can't use the default header and will have to make one up for myself?

Edit: Thanks for your help on this thread and the photoshop thread.

I got it to the point where I can post an individual post in the new typeface, but it seems to effect ALL the other posts on the same page... so if I put an acens style sheet into the html of one post, the whole page gets effected.

I am wondering how I can put it into the style sheet into the html of just one post, and have only that post get its type face changed.

Also, I don't know how to change bewteen different embedded fonts in the same post. I tried playing around with it, but it only seems to take one type face. Maybe there is a special style sheet that allows changing the type of font in the same post, that I don't know about.

Finally, whenever I had to edit the post, the style sheet would be lost and the font would revert back to the default of the page... in this case arial. Maybe I am missing some special step to prevent this from happening.

Thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to tackle this.

[talcumpowder]

Stylesheet affect the whole page. That's what their supposed to do.
... I can only think of having <font face="WHATEVER"> in every entry but the one you're using it in.
You can put the code in Webstats if you feel like it.
[ http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/99/45....html?tw=design ]

[Anatole]

I tried using the font face html, but it didn't work. Thanks for the link... I will read it shortly.

I want to be able to use several differnet font types within a single post. This does not seem to be a very effective method for that... additionally, I am wondering if this gets seen by anyone besides myself. It was unclear to me when I first read about embedding fonts as to whether only the person who downloaded the font would be able to read it in that font or not.

I asked my readers to comment if they were getting the embedded type face or not, but because of the Xanga mistake, I haven't had comments for the past day.

If anyone wants to check out the page HERE and let me know if they are reading it in the Acens type face, I would appreciate it.

Anyway, I am wondering what programming device I would need to post a blog entry in several different funky type faces, that can be read by other computers.

Would photoshop have this capacity? In other words, would I have to use photoshop to do a blog entry in custom fonts, and then up load the entry as a photo to the blog?

Thanks to anyone who replies.

[talcumpowder]

Yeah. You highlight the words and make them a diffrent font.
But font face does work.... You just have to close it. o.O

[Anatole]

lol... I don't blame you for pointing that out.

If by close it you mean </font>, I did that.

Seems that I am getting the Acens font on my computer, but others aren't... and even if they are too, it isn't working the way I had in mind, anyway.

Read quite a bit of the webmonkey sight last night, very helpful, thanks.

I am wondering if there is any other methid of designing a post with several different custom fonts, other than embedding, as embedding seems to be imperfect... unless there is something I am missing about embedding.

Doesn't seem that you can work with custom fonts with photoshop, not that I can see, anyway.

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