different nonstandard font family

[yamoto]

ola

I have problem.
I would like to have text in swis font family. On my comp is everything alright, but when i load page on other computers (where swis font family is not intalled) is set to times new roman.

as i know the code looks something like that:

@font-face {
font-stretch: ultra-expanded;
font-family: "Swis721 BdRnd BT";
src="images/tt0815¦2.ttf");
}

Is this ok? Is src line correct?
Where in code must be placed?

thanx

yamoto

[choster]

Your syntax appears to be correct as it would appear inside <style type="text/css"></style>; however, you should know that @font-face is a CSS2 selector and probably not supported very widely yet. CSS1 browsers would ignore everything in between @font-face{ and the closing}.

You can set up "fallback" typefaces within font-family, e.g.

body {font-family: "Swis721 BdRnd BT", Swiss, Univers, Helvetica, sans-serif"; }
@font-face {etc.

in which case the browser looks in the respective order for available fonts.

[drbrain]

@font-face was not implemented in any of the "major" browsers (IE, Mozilla, Opera, Safari) so it doesn't work. Wait for CSS3 web fonts module.

[choster]

It just occurred to me to add that Swiss 721 Bold Rounded BT is not in the public domain-- it is copyrighted by Bitstream, and I don't think their license allows you to distribute the TrueType definition files over the web (MyFonts.com is charging $24.75 for it...).