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  • Lamy
    #1

    How to install a font dynamically

    Please help,
    I need to upload a font file from the website (with admin privilages) and
    install it on the web server.
    Is there a way of doing that or an example?
    Kindest Regards
    Lamine


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    • Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)
      #2
      Re: How to install a font dynamically

      I assume you are attempting to embed fonts in your web pages? If so,
      Microsoft has a tool called the WEFT (Web Embedded Font Tool), which you can
      find at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...t3/default.htm.
      The downside with the tool is it is not supported by all browsers.

      Installing on the web server will not help, except as a downloadable font
      (using a tool like above). Otherwise, the user needs the font on his system.

      --
      Gregory A. Beamer
      MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

      *************** *************** ***************
      Think outside the box!
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      "Lamy" <lamine_d@mpt-ltd.comwrote in message
      news:%234ytVNua HHA.1388@TK2MSF TNGP05.phx.gbl. ..
      Please help,
      I need to upload a font file from the website (with admin privilages) and
      install it on the web server.
      Is there a way of doing that or an example?
      Kindest Regards
      Lamine
      >

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        • Lamy
          #3
          Re: How to install a font dynamically

          Many thanks Gregory for your email.
          I do use WEFT already for other reason. but this functionality is required
          to embed fonts dynamically in a pdf file. The control I am using requires
          the fonts to be installed in the server before it can embed them in the pdf.
          Hope that is clear.
          Thanking you in advance.
          Kindest regards
          Lamine

          "Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer)" <NoSpamMgbworld @comcast.netNoS pamMwrote in
          message news:EE26500A-129C-4BDB-93D4-2621693A9FA5@mi crosoft.com...
          >I assume you are attempting to embed fonts in your web pages? If so,
          >Microsoft has a tool called the WEFT (Web Embedded Font Tool), which you
          >can find at
          >http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...t3/default.htm. The
          >downside with the tool is it is not supported by all browsers.
          >
          Installing on the web server will not help, except as a downloadable font
          (using a tool like above). Otherwise, the user needs the font on his
          system.
          >
          --
          Gregory A. Beamer
          MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
          >
          *************** *************** ***************
          Think outside the box!
          *************** *************** ***************
          "Lamy" <lamine_d@mpt-ltd.comwrote in message
          news:%234ytVNua HHA.1388@TK2MSF TNGP05.phx.gbl. ..
          >Please help,
          >I need to upload a font file from the website (with admin privilages) and
          >install it on the web server.
          >Is there a way of doing that or an example?
          >Kindest Regards
          >Lamine
          >>
          >

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            • darrel
              #4
              Re: How to install a font dynamically

              \Please help,
              I need to upload a font file from the website (with admin privilages) and
              install it on the web server.
              Is there a way of doing that or an example?
              Kindest Regards
              Lamine
              From a pure licensing standpoint, most commercial fonts would require that
              the server have a license for the font. You probably don't want anyone and
              everyone uploading a font to your server (if you want to stay within the
              licensing of the fonts).

              Also, fonts aren't really 'installed' as much as they are placed in a
              specific folder in windows. One thought would be to drop uploaded font files
              into a folder in IIS and then have a replication script running on the
              server itself ready to copy any files into there into the windows font
              folder.

              -Darrel


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                • Lamy
                  #5
                  Re: How to install a font dynamically

                  Hi Darrel,
                  Many thanks for your reply.
                  I am aware of the licensing issue, we tend to make our own fonts.
                  Thank you again.
                  Regards
                  Lamine


                  "darrel" <notreal@nowher e.comwrote in message
                  news:u7EnBkwaHH A.3272@TK2MSFTN GP03.phx.gbl...
                  >\Please help,
                  >I need to upload a font file from the website (with admin privilages) and
                  >install it on the web server.
                  >Is there a way of doing that or an example?
                  >Kindest Regards
                  >Lamine
                  >
                  From a pure licensing standpoint, most commercial fonts would require that
                  the server have a license for the font. You probably don't want anyone and
                  everyone uploading a font to your server (if you want to stay within the
                  licensing of the fonts).
                  >
                  Also, fonts aren't really 'installed' as much as they are placed in a
                  specific folder in windows. One thought would be to drop uploaded font
                  files into a folder in IIS and then have a replication script running on
                  the server itself ready to copy any files into there into the windows font
                  folder.
                  >
                  -Darrel
                  >

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