Re: Fonts

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From: Murray (forums_at_HAHAgreat-web-sights.com)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 08:51:00 -0500

Don't use WEFT. 

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Murray
"George Hester" <hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:%23DolXEfyEHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> You get the title to appear in the font you want with the background the
> same as what is on your web page.  Then with your font the way you want it
> showing in a window on your desktp you type Alt-PrintScr.  The you Start |
> Run | mspaint | OK.  Then you do Ctrl-v.  Say yes to the pompt to increase
> the canvas.  Then you click the rectangle on the left and box out what you
> want to save namely around your font title.  Then ctrl-c.  Then close this
> image do not save it.  Then ctrl-v.  Then you ave what you want.  Save it 
> as
> a bitmap to preserve the coloring 24-bit.
>
> Now you need another application.  I use:
>
> http://www.fcodersoft.com/
>
> It is a great tool the best out there.  Convert the bitmap to a gif and 
> put
> that in your pages with CSS and this tag:
>
> <img id="oImage" src="\images\title1.gif" width="100" height="3" 
> border="0"
> />
>
> I assume you only have one image so caching the images first is probably 
> not
> necessary.  One other thing you might consider is WEFT.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm
>
> --
> George Hester
> _________________________________
> "Mickster" <Mickster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9D9D0CC8-16CD-4F00-9C6E-7A0ED6106B1B@microsoft.com...
>> I want to use a font the is not web safe for my titles. Is there an easy
> way
>> to change text into a graphic?
>
>

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