[FM Discuss] Modified PDF for MYOSA

[adam]

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 05:42 -0700, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud wrote:
> Hello -
> 
> Christopher and were successful in our OBJAVI experiments yesterday 
> using the @font-face method and uploading the fonts to the Rural Design 
> Collective server.

wohooo!

i was wondering if you would consider writing a brief how-to for the
booki blog (on using @font-face)...

that would not only be very very cool but it would help others too...

adam


>  I was somewhat surprised that these free font 
> repositories don't allow linking to the actual free fonts especially 
> since there is a precedent for linking to Javascript libraries for 
> online display - that will prohibit use for many without their own 
> method to upload fonts.
> 
> So it looks like we will be using Booki after all! I am a little 
> concerned about the unsightly page breaks since there are so many screen 
> captures in the book. I know we would have more control if we use 
> PrinceXML rather than attempt to size images in FLOSS Manuals to get 
> better results (something no doubt James would not want us to do since 
> it would interfere with his output).
> 
> So we still have the illustrations to upload, plus some screen captures -
> > i think actually its every free font in the world...
> >   
> That would be impossible to do ... of course, I used to have a sticker 
> on my computer that said "Whoever Dies With The Most Fonts Wins" :-)
> 
> Rebecca Malamud
> 
> 
> > if you want to use non-free fonts you can use @font-face to define them
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#the-font-face-rule
> >
> > you need to out the fonts online and link to them with this method.
> >
> > as discussed before however, im not sure this actually works...it
> > should, but we havent tested it...so if you try it then report back with
> > the results :)
> >
> > adam
> >   
> 
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