[FM Discuss] "ReadingAndSugar" now pimped with drop caps, please publish

[Rebecca Hargrave Malamud]

Hello, John -

Yes - I have had success using @font-face with OBJAVI - you can view  
my CSS here:

http://www.ruraldesigncollective.org/lab/ebook/enlightenment/Styles/stylesheet.css

Related blog post is here:

http://sixes.net/rdcHQ/pre-flight-check/

The trick is that you must have a server to upload the fonts to if you  
wish to use a custom font (otherwise you are limited to the default  
set in OBJAVI). It would be nice if free font services offered a  
repository for linking to free fonts directly for web use, but  
performance issues must prohibit them from doing so.

Rebecca Malamud



On Sep 27, 2010, at 6:48 AM, James Simmons wrote:

> John,
>
> I believe Rebecca Malamud of the Rural Design Collective has used
> @font-face, and may have used it with OBJAVI as well.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:52 AM, John Curwood
> <marketing at lovinglearning.co.nz> wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, since reading this thread, I've come across
>> reference to an @font-face css rule, which allows a browser to  
>> download
>> a font off a server to display locally as it would for images or  
>> flash
>> files.  Has anyone had experience with this?  Could it be used on an
>> HTML version of a Booki book or FM manual?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 10:06 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>>> John,
>>>
>>> On the web I'm limited to fonts that are commonly available but  
>>> when I
>>> make my style sheet for OBJAVI II I'll pick a font family that's a
>>> little fancier.
>>>
>>> James Simmons
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:02 PM, John Curwood
>>> <marketing at lovinglearning.co.nz> wrote:
>>>> Hi James,
>>>>
>>>> I've re-published Ebook Enlightenment for you.
>>>>
>>>> By the way I like your Idea of using a different font on the first
>>>> letter of a chapter.  I've seen a couple of really good decorative
>>>> black-letter fonts that would be perfect for that job, giving the
>>>> impression of a medieval text (unfortunately I can't remember their
>>>> names at present).
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 17:57 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>>>>> I've put drop-caps in all the chapters of "E-Book Enlightenment"  
>>>>> that
>>>>> are visible in the HTML and which can be seen in generated PDFs  
>>>>> (and
>>>>> probably EPUBs) if you use a style sheet that supports them.   
>>>>> I'd like
>>>>> to have the book published so that all may see said drop caps  
>>>>> and be
>>>>> impressed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> James Simmons
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