Re: Auto-installing fonts?

AH!  well that changes everything.   I reckon the best way to do it is to 
give everyone a self-extracting archive that puts the fonts directly into 
c:\windows\fonts when it's executed.   It'll take them all less than 30 
seconds each to install the fonts.   If it's a normal set of fonts your zip 
file will likely be less than 100k.

Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development
AFP Font Development
Windsor, NSW, Australia
http://www.afp.zip.com.au


>
>I should have been more specific. First, copyright is not an issue with 
>what I'm looking
>for. We created the font, we own the font, and the only people I want to 
>have the font are
>other employees. Second, it doesn't have to be cross-platform as we're all 
>(until Linux is
>popular enough to run our software) using Windows 98/NT 4. So my revised 
>question is thus:
>can I create a link that automatically tries to put the ttf into the 
>%systemroot%\fonts\
>folder?
>
>It would be much easier than trying to explain to new employees where the 
>company font
>lives on the server and so on, and the site will be a password protected 
>intranet site.
>
>Thanks again!
>
>Nathaniel Bank;
>Database Lummox &
>Software Development;
>Cello Technologies Corp.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mike Kear <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>
>To: <Nathan.Bank(at)cello.net>; <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
>Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 10:33 AM
>Subject: Re: Auto-installing fonts?
>
>
>
>Not sure how this would happen.
>
>I have designed and built a series of fonts.  These have been sold to
>primary schools round Australia, and I have personally been providing
>support for several thousand installations.
>
>In windows95, you have to put the .ttf font files into the folder
>c:\windows\fonts  but only if they have a regular stock-standard
>installation.
>
>In a mac, the fonts have to go inside the folder "fonts" inside the 
>"system"
>folder.
>
>The mac truetype format is NOT the same as the Windows truetype format,
>which are NOT the same as the Acorn truetype formula, and these in turn are
>not the same as the linux format, if all the other indications run true to
>form. (But I've never had to install a font into linux, so I can't speak
>from personal experience).  Then there's the mac users who prefer the type 
>1
>format fonts (Adobe ATM or postscript fonts).
>
>Not a huge problem, because you could check for OS and give them the 
>correct
>format.
>
>So far so good.   But in my experience, once in a while, the fonts dont
>install just by dropping in the correct folder.  You have to install them
>manually, even though they're present in the proper place.    And some apps
>only look for fonts when they start up.  Word for example, won't recognise 
>a
>font that's installed after it's going.
>
>Then there's the rights issue.  The person who owns the rights to the 
>fonts,
>does not give anyone the right to copy them anywhere holus-bolus.   
>Licenses
>are very specific.  I would NEVER permit my hard work to be put on a web
>site for downloading to just anyone who comes by, unless I'm paid a sizable
>sum of money for it.  You can't just put a font on your site and hand it to
>people unless you own the right to do so.  Try handing out a ITC font or a
>Letraset font willy-nilly and see how long it takes for a person with a 
>writ
>to knock on your door.  Remember that once a font is installed to use a web
>page, it's not just available for that page, it's also available for all
>their other apps too, and can be printed, used for typesetting, signs,
>billboards, television, hell even skywriting.
>
>
>It's sooo tantalising having all those fonts to use, but being unable to 
>use
>them in web design, but for the mean time, I don't see a practical solution
>to the boring old verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif fonts just yet.
>
>
>Cheers,
>Mike Kear
>AFP Web Development
>AFP Font Development
>Windsor, NSW, Australia
>http://www.afp.zip.com.au
>
>
> >
> >Is there a way to auto-install a font simply by clicking a hyperlink? I
> >should think that
> >would be an easy way of making sure a user has the necessary font 
>libraries
> >to view any
> >site one would do in a non-standard font... if possible, that is :-)
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Nathaniel Bank;
> >Database Lummox &
> >Software Development;
> >Cello Technologies Corp.
> >http://it.cello.net/CelloTools/
> >
>
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