fancy fonts ( amaze ) in html4.01 - any way to integrate fonts via apa

how to integrate in regular html4.01 page a ttf font

[hans51]

hi

on some of my pages - all HTML 4.01, using CSS - i have TTF title font

amaze, amazone bt,

while many - specialy corel- and other users may have them - i found that many default XP pro users appear to have no such fonts.

how to assure the surfer can see the titles in these fancy fonts?

is there a way via apache .htaccess or otherwise ..
to place these ttf fonts on the server in my directory?

or if NOT AT ALL possible with HTML 4.01

would there be an easy solution WITHOUT PHP - to make apache supply the client-side missing fonts with XHTML pages?

any help welcome

hans

[PCInk]

Is the font copyright?

[hans51]

honestly
i don't know

i have just searched google
and see that at least the font is available for free on www.dafont.com

i know this font ( amaze.ttf ) since many years - mostly from corel applications but also from CD with fonts given along with printers ( HP and epson use to give away for free quantities of nice ttf fonts )

how do i find out if a font is free or copyrighted?

[hans51]

i was searching on

www.dafont.com

and found the following info re font amaze

"The fonts presented on this website are their authors' property, and are either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain..."

[PCInk]

I don't know how you find out - but it would be illegal to use it if it was, except for personal use (any website is public use).

The only way to use a font that is non-standard is to use a graphic. But you must use alt text so users with graphics off still see the text. You still need to check the copyright status before you use it publicly.

[humpingdan]

Take a look at this page

[webdesign.about.com...]

it lets u define the font for your page and actually supply it to the user, so if i didnt have verdana installed and you had used verdana for your site you can create a file which dynamically installs verdana on my machine!#

pretty nifty! not practical though!

[hans51]

hi

i don't know either how to find out re copyright of fonts ..

but

various large websites have amaze for free download,
and the one with most detailed info

[dafont.com...]

and a very large selection of TTF fonts for win/Linux/mac OS

states in the FAQ about copyright

[dafont.com...]

"The fonts presented on this website are their authors' property, and are either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain, most of the time for non-commercial use. Look at the readme-files in the archives or check the indicated authors' website for details, and contact him if in doubt."

many of their freely downloadaable ttf fonts have author names ... many have NO author names, such as amaze and several similar of the script family.

hence i may safely assume that "amaze" is either public domain or freeware.

about integrating fonts in CSS ( i have separate CSS sheets used for the entire site since i have some 1000+html pages,

i have tested the published syntax - but get some problems with the syntax to call the fonts.ttf file as my mozilla browser does NOT know such syntax ( using src: ... ) and w3c does NOT validate src: url(....) syntax in CSS stylesheet.

when using same syntax as when calling a background image ini a CSS stylesheet .. system fonts are displayed and NOT the font file fonts ..

w3c only validates
url(pathtofontsfile);
but the browser did NOT find the fonts and displayed default system fonts.

hence how to embed fonts for both browsers is not yet cler to me. may be i make more testing later on or find a sample site first.

greetings and thanks for the help

hans
cyberspace ashram
www.kriyayoga.com