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Post by dgriffin on Oct 1, 2008 14:29:38 GMT -5
I'm trying to figure out if I can use any font on my PC and have it post on this forum and look the same to you and it looks to me.
Here's a test.
If you're seeing what I'm seeing, it's the word "Test."
The "s" should be a "long s," that is like
sort of an " f ".
What do you see?
Test
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Post by Clipper on Oct 1, 2008 15:40:09 GMT -5
I only got the normal font, with bold type. It was a normal lower case "s".
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Post by dgriffin on Oct 1, 2008 15:57:09 GMT -5
Thanks, Clipper!
That's what I thought would happen. It might work if YOU had that font, but you wouldn't because it's something I bought some years ago.
OK, you probably have "comic sans ms" so I'll try that. You'll recognize it as an informal typeface. Looks like a "brush" style.
What do you see?
Test
If you don't see it, then probably ProBoards allows only certain fonts and maybe Ralph knows what they are.
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Post by dan on Oct 1, 2008 17:49:46 GMT -5
Thanks, Clipper! That's what I thought would happen. It might work if YOU had that font, but you wouldn't because it's something I bought some years ago. OK, you probably have "comic sans ms" so I'll try that. You'll recognize it as an informal typeface. Looks like a "brush" style. What do you see? TestIf you don't see it, then probably ProBoards allows only certain fonts and maybe Ralph knows what they are. This looks like it came through correctly Dave. |
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Post by dgriffin on Oct 1, 2008 21:55:32 GMT -5
Thanks, Dan. Either it is an "allowed font," or more probably the way proboards works is similar to how I think email works. You see the font the sender intended only if that particular font is resident on your machine. (Same with web pages, too.) Most PC's come with a version of MS Word that provides their PC with many fonts to choose from, most of which are going to be on most receiving machines. As I mentioned, the first font with the long s is not a standard MSoft font. It's one I purchased some years ago for historical replica printing.
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Post by Ralph on Oct 1, 2008 23:48:44 GMT -5
I run into the same problem at times when working with Photoshop and switching it back and forth between graphic programs and browsers.
In most font bases you find a number of them listed as TT or True Type fonts. I believe MS & Mac both support all the True Type fonts in their OS's as well do most browsers.
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Post by stoney on Oct 2, 2008 9:59:02 GMT -5
Is this a test?
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Post by Clipper on Oct 2, 2008 11:19:57 GMT -5
No stoney, this is just a quiz, the test will be tommorrow, so study hard tonight, LOLOL!
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Post by Swimmy on Oct 2, 2008 12:29:32 GMT -5
If I recall correctly, True type fonts are the fonts that you would find on the typewriters. There is a whole history about the various fonts. I remember reading about it. But I can't remember enough about it pass a test now. Something about postscript fonts, dot matrix printers, pixel management, glyph rendering.
Yeah, it's not coming to me. sorry.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 2, 2008 15:57:42 GMT -5
Hell swimmy, I don't know if "it's coming to you" or not, but it went WAY over MY head, LOL.
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Post by stoney on Oct 3, 2008 9:14:06 GMT -5
Will this be on the final?
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Post by Clipper on Oct 3, 2008 9:21:18 GMT -5
I am not sure. Ralph is in charge of font issues and training, but I think it is only a midterm with a final in June of 2009. LOL
This stuff is way over my level of computer understanding. Hehe! I turn it on and type away. If I can't type away, I call my local computer geek friend and he walks me through the problem, haha.
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Post by stoney on Oct 3, 2008 9:25:25 GMT -5
I still can't post gifs & pics, so I am really computer illiterate.
Computers are the Devil's work, I tell ya'...
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Post by Swimmy on Oct 4, 2008 9:14:34 GMT -5
use the img tags and put the url to the image in between., e.g. [img]<insert_picture_url_here>[/img]a gif file...  a regular picture file...  |
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Post by Clipper on Oct 4, 2008 9:16:57 GMT -5
Oh my goodness, someone throw Stoney a robe. LOL
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