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arkymalarky

I looked into it a bit, but I found that Bellevue is not a free font. Is that the exact name? Many times, someone creates a free version with a similar name. I'm not sure this is the source of the problem, but:

1. I can't check into what might be happening without the font
   
2. If you want to create a website using a font that requires purchase, you won't find many people who can view the results
   
3. Is there a free font that looks similar?
   

427. dusty - 10/2/1999 2:05:59 AM

PE did you take that picture?

428. dusty - 10/2/1999 2:10:04 AM

pseudoerasmus

There are 43 fonts at that site under the heading Cyrillic. I'm in the process of trying cyrilic.zip, under Russian Miscellaneous. Is that the one you intended?

429. wabbit - 10/2/1999 2:16:29 AM

Dusty (and Hashke),

Get the one under Russian Misc called cyrttf.zip (127 kb). That one worked perfectly for me.

430. dusty - 10/2/1999 2:23:21 AM

Oops, my trial graphics editor just ran out of free trials. Time to order it; this will take a while.

431. dusty - 10/2/1999 2:28:07 AM

I will check it out PE, but I need to download a new version of PaintShop Pro; it is 13 megs, then I need to install it.

432. dusty - 10/2/1999 2:36:39 AM

This is what it looks like with the first font I downloaded:

433. dusty - 10/2/1999 2:49:07 AM

This is what it looks like with the second font (cyrttf.zip) I downloaded:



I think this looks better, but not knowing Russian, I'll let the experts opine.

434. dusty - 10/2/1999 2:52:00 AM

BTW, I does look better than that on the screen; somewhere between the screen capture, the cropping, the saving as jpeg, the uploading to my website, and the display, something is being lost. I'm not sure what, and anyone with expertise is encouraged to chime in.

435. dusty - 10/2/1999 3:02:30 AM

BTW PE, the image you posted is striking, but it is too large for the margins. This is the place to test that, but it would mess up the margins in other threads. A better alternative is to post it as a thumbnail, as follows:

(Click to see image)



The generic form of the command is shown in post 373. (Although use of height and width each equal to 50 will distort any non-square image. I used
80 and 50, respectively, and it is ok to use one, and let the image determine the appropriate value for the other.)

436. dusty - 10/2/1999 3:04:47 AM

I think it makes sense to leave the red border around a thumbnail image as a reminder that it is a link, but I think you can remove it my adding "Border="0" " to the link image.

here is a test:



(Click to see image)

437. arkymalarky - 10/2/1999 3:25:35 AM

Thanks Dusty, you really are helpful. Hm, that would have made you a good Mote name; then we'd have Thoughtful and Helpful.
I don't know what are free fonts and what aren't, I only know what's in my various computer programs and some I have I can't read on the net. Is there a list of free fonts somewhere? You should be able to read this as Bellevue. I have Bellevue on Word at home and at work, so I don't know why I wouldn't be able to see them at both places, but I can see it at work, and I don't know if it's a Nsc/IE thing or what.
Also, I converted my default font, or whatever it's called, from TNR to Bradley Hand ITC and everything is in that now, but I can't use the same font on my website.

438. CalGal - 10/2/1999 3:32:29 AM

BTW, I am rewriting the HTML Hints page. I expect to have the following sections:

1. Text appearance
2. Text formatting (lists, blockquotes, any others?)
3. Images
4. Tables
5. Common mistakes

439. arkymalarky - 10/2/1999 3:45:02 AM

Thanks, Cal.
Your website will display whatever font is coded in the pages it displays. If you don't specify a font, it will display TNR, which is the default. If you specify a font that another person doesn't have loaded on their PC, then you will see the font, but they will see TNR.

Here's what's happening, though. I have the font. I can use the font. I put it on my website and I can see the font. I go home and pull up my website and I see TNR. I look on my home pc and I have the font, so why can't I see it, yet I can see it at work? The same thing works in reverse, and some fonts which I have and can use or can even set as a default font, I can't get to show up using html on both computers. Does it have to be in my browser, not just my computer? If that's it, I guess I need to look at my work browser's font list and pick a font that's on both lists. So far the only fonts that work on both are TNR and Arial. But if that's it, why can't I use Bradley Hand ITC when I'm editing the site at home? I can set it as my whole default, but when I use it as the font face, it won't show up.

440. arkymalarky - 10/2/1999 3:45:35 AM

Where can I find the free font list?

441. phillipdavid - 10/2/1999 4:05:34 AM

Arky,

FontFreak.com -- download and install to your heart's contentment.

This page has handy instructions to install fonts correctly so that they work in all of the programs on your computer.

442. arkymalarky - 10/2/1999 4:12:24 AM

Thanks, PD! I've got that bookmarked, and I'll bookmark it at work too, and see if following their installation instructions on both computers fixes the problem and allows me to see all the fonts in both places.

443. pseudoerasmus - 10/2/1999 4:22:27 AM

Dusty, yes, I'm aware of thumbnails. Please don't teach me HTML.

444. dusty - 10/2/1999 4:22:56 AM

Arky, as you can see, there are about 2500 free fonts on that site alone, and there are many other sites with free fonts, so it isn't really practical to make a list of the free fonts. However, it someone refers to a specific font, you can use a search engine (such as Google.com) to find the font. That's how I found Bellevue, but I found it on an Adobe site. It could be downloaded for a fee.

For example,
here is the site where Bellevue can be obtained, but it costs $96.00, so I doubt you will find too many takers.

445. pseudoerasmus - 10/2/1999 4:23:02 AM

Thanks, Dusty, for the Cyrillic workout. The second one is the correct one.

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