USING DYNAMIC FONTS IN HTML POSTING

NOTES:
  1. It is not confirmed that this is working in HTML mailing.
  2. If you have trouble in reading posts, such like Communicator tries to download file repeatedly, font file may be broken. Try usual "Aspirin"; that is clear cache files, and delete netscape.hst file on "Users" directory. Reboot netscape.
The following instructions are assumed that you are going to use Bitstream's Dynamic Fonts.

After you finished all text and image composing, open desired font sample page by Navigator. (This step may not needed if you previously used the fonts and they are cashed in your HD) For example, this document font is
Calligraphic 421, and sample page is
http://www.truedoc.com/webpages/availpfrs/calligraph421.htm. If you want to view all available fonts, try
http://www.truedoc.com/webpages/availpfrs/avail_pfr_samples_all.htm, but this page may requires long time to browse the whole document. And font samples are limited to characters used in font names, so it is recommended
to open individual sample page, else you will find many rectangles in your document during composing.

The sample page contains LINK and FONT FACE information. First, copy LINK information. Example: <LINK REL=FONTDEF SRC="...truedoc.com/pfrs/Calligraph421.pfr">
Back to composing window, move cursor to upper left corner (or Ctrl+Home). Select Insert | HTML tag, right click in the box, paste LINK inf. Now the tricky part. After "...pfr" add a space and type NOSAVE. Example: <LINK
REL=FONTDEF SRC=".../Calligraph421.pfr" NOSAVE> This option may require upper case, but even if you type in lower cases, composer will correct them. If you forget adding NOSAVE, mail composer will download .pfr file
and include it in your mail just like images. Click OK.
Now you can see an yellow tag appear, go back to the sample page. Copy FONT FACE inf. Example: <FONT FACE="Calligraph421 BT"> Insert | HTML tag again, paste this in the box . Click OK, and you can see second
yellow tag.
Move the cursor to the end of the document (or Ctrl+End). Insert | HTML tag again, type </FONT> in the box. Click OK, now you can see another yellow tag which is a different shape.

The above steps can be performed by using Tools | Edit HTML. (NC 4.5 PR2 or below may require installing Composer plugin to do so.)

If you are composing online, you may see the fonts are changing after you click Save button. But there may be many rectangles. If they are in the position of periods, commas, or other characters except alphabet, just ignore. They should be expressed normally after you post the document to the server.
Sometimes composing window turns to white out, don't panic. You can confirm that your document is not disappeared by View | Page Source.

10/14/1998

Joji Ikeda

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