TTF Font File on Website doesn't work...

[ReMaX]

Hi people,
need help! I put that in a stylesheet

@font-face {
	font-family: "Bell Centennial Sub-Caption BT"; 
	src: local("Bell Centennial Sub-Caption BT"),
	url("font/BELCESUB.TTF")
	format("TrueType"); }

but it doesn't work except if I open a font program having the font installed on my computer. Does anybody have a solution?!

greetings
Max

[jscheuer1]

If this is for the web, forget about it. You have no control over the fonts other users have installed. If it is only for your local use, make sure that the font is installed on your computer as available to all programs, or at least to the browser(s) you are using, and use a normal font declaration, like:

body {
font-family:"Bell Centennial Sub-Caption BT";
}

[ReMaX]

It is for the web and that's why there is an attribute called "src: url(...)" but for some reason it doesn't work. I've already checked the path. Anybody else an idea?

[Twey]

I believe that this form of font embedding is not yet supported in most browsers.

[jscheuer1]

I believe that this form of font embedding is not yet supported in most browsers.

Even if it were, I doubt local, as in:

src: local("Bell Centennial Sub-Caption BT"),

would cut it for a live page.

ReMaX, where did you find out about this technique? Here's the specification:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts....t-descriptions

If you provide a fall-back generic face, as instructed at the above link, at least those browsers without support for the technique will render something of your choosing. Also, you will note that the src cannot be local for a live implementation.

[ReMaX]

Thanks for your answers but it really doesn't work. Only if I have installed the font! Perhaps I did not understand it very well . Once again, here is the Code - what I really need of it, right.

@font-face {
        font-family: "BellCent SubCap BT";
        src: url("font/BELCESUB.TTF"); }
body {
        font-family: "BellCent SubCap BT"; }

...by the way, I think I've found this technique on a selfhtml page. There is a plethora ( ) of knowledge about html and css but they're not up to date and do not fullfill the rules of w3c in every way.

[Twey]

It's true. However, as I've said, while this is fine according to the specification, it hasn't been implemented in most major browsers yet.

[jscheuer1]

Thanks for your answers but it really doesn't work. Only if I have installed the font!

If you were to carefully read the specification, I believe you would find that is one of several levels of support browsers may afford this technique.

[truefontfamily]

Webkit is one of the first browsers supporting Web fonts. Meaning you can use @font-face in your CSS. With older browsers you can still do this when you install True Font Family. You do need a PHP server with GD (comes standard from version 4.3). Another alternative would be sIFR.

Edit: True Font Family is a commercial product. However, even though this is a blatant plug, I am leaving the link intact, as it is very much on topic. If however, I see references to this product in less appropriate locations around the forum, the link will be removed and the user issued infraction points, possibly banned.

[Twey]

Both alternatives require Javascript, and use images (seriously harming accessibility and probably wrecking your page layout in many browsers/setups).

TFF also doesn't appear to work on Konqueror.

P.S. it took me eleven minutes to break your pro version. Either you're good, or it's because I just woke up. I'm impressed.