Font management from the server-side

[francois-yanick]

In the process of creating Breacrumbs for our website redesign, the Graphics
Designer would like to use a special fonts. We already know that this font will
not be installed on most of user client-side. She though about creating
graphics to represents the navigation (breadcrumbs) but I ask myself if we can
use the Font Management from the Coldfusion Administrator. I have no experience
with this feature and have not find interesting information about it from the
web.

Is it possible to use a font installed on the server-side through CSS so the
client/web-user will see the text with that font?

[MikerRoo]

This is not possible. You will have to get the users to install the fonts on
their machines or display graphics instead of text.

The BEST way to do this is to gently encourage the user to download the font
but to degrade gracefully into similar standard fonts.

E.G.
body
{
font-family: "My Bitchen Blinky font","Trebuchet
MS",Verdana,Geneva,Tahoma,Sans-Serif;
}

[Abinidi]

You could use WEFT, but it is still limited to certain browsers.
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/[/url]

Bitstream has something to , but again, is limited
[url]http://bitstream.com/[/url]

[Unregistered]

Look into SIRF.... it's a technology that combines the use of Javascript and Flash into presenting the user with a desire font and they do not have to install the font in their machine. If the browser is not javascript compatible, which 99% of websites wouldn't work anyways, then you will see regular text.