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From: Emily Brick on 18 Jan 2010 10:33 I am a a brand new user to Adobe Dreamweaver. I have a very simple website layout with mainly text and a few links. The font I've chose to use is set to Futura which I've added to the font list. Everything looks fine in the design format but when I switch to live view or do preview, the font shows up as Verdana or Helvetica. Is this just temporary or am I doing something wrong? Any help would be graciously appreciated. Thanks so much.
From: Duncan Kennedy on 18 Jan 2010 11:50 In message <effeb24b-1749-4191-a32b-99261fec9fec(a)r26g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>, Emily Brick <brick.emily(a)gmail.com> writes >I am a a brand new user to Adobe Dreamweaver. I have a very simple >website layout with mainly text and a few links. The font I've chose >to use is set to Futura which I've added to the font list. Everything >looks fine in the design format but when I switch to live view or do >preview, the font shows up as Verdana or Helvetica. Is this just >temporary or am I doing something wrong? Any help would be graciously >appreciated. Thanks so much. I'm not sure what is happening in your Live View but remember that a web page is not printed like a sheet of paper - the Font isn't embedded (at least not without a lot of effort and licensing) - it is an instruction to the visitor's computer to use, say, Futura - which it may not have. Futura is not available by default on all computers (like Macs and Linux) so I guess Live View is showing you how your site will look on computers that don't have Futura. The *default Dreamweaver font list is showing you the only fonts which have direct or close equivalents across platforms - e.g. Arial, Helvetica, sans serif or Verdona, Helvetica, sans serif. (Basically, Windows / Mac / Linux) -- Duncan K Downtown Dalgety Bay
From: Tom on 23 Jan 2010 18:02 On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:33:31 -0800 (PST), Emily Brick <brick.emily(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I am a a brand new user to Adobe Dreamweaver. I have a very simple >website layout with mainly text and a few links. The font I've chose >to use is set to Futura which I've added to the font list. Everything >looks fine in the design format but when I switch to live view or do >preview, the font shows up as Verdana or Helvetica. Is this just >temporary or am I doing something wrong? Any help would be graciously >appreciated. Thanks so much. Do you have Futura first in the fonts you defined for the pages?
From: Your Name on 23 Jan 2010 23:45 "Tom" <CatInTheFat(a)feline.com> wrote in message news:fuvml59dqmcej7n5gmsdns555qieis42ft(a)4ax.com... > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:33:31 -0800 (PST), Emily Brick <brick.emily(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > >I am a a brand new user to Adobe Dreamweaver. I have a very simple > >website layout with mainly text and a few links. The font I've chose > >to use is set to Futura which I've added to the font list. Everything > >looks fine in the design format but when I switch to live view or do > >preview, the font shows up as Verdana or Helvetica. Is this just > >temporary or am I doing something wrong? Any help would be graciously > >appreciated. Thanks so much. > > Do you have Futura first in the fonts you defined for the pages? Not really relevant since many of the visitors to the web page won't even have that font. You have to stick to the standard "web safe" fonts, unless the website is for an internal network where you can control what fonts are on the computers. The only other options for using "fancy" fonts is to use a PDF or similar format that embeds the fonts or convert the words to GIF / JPEG (or PNG if you really must) images. Helpful Harry :o)
From: Tom on 25 Jan 2010 08:59
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:45:17 +1300, "Your Name" <your.name(a)isp.com> wrote: >but when I switch to live view or do >> >preview, the font shows up as Verdana or Helvetica But he said: "...when I switch to live view or do preview, the font shows up as Verdana or Helvetica" He must already have the font on his local PC to see it in Design view...right? |