FAQ

Web Font Viewing & Authoring

1. What are dynamic fonts?
2. What are EOT & PFR format?
3. What do I do if WebFonts (dynamic fonts ) do not work ?
4. My WebFonts (dynamic fonts,) work in Internet Explorer but not in Netscape?
5. My WebFonts (dynamic fonts) work in Netscape but not in Internet Explorer?
6. I can't see Web Fonts in IE5
7. I upgraded to Netscape Communicator 4.05 for my Macintosh. Why don't the fonts work anymore?
8. Why can't I see dynamic fonts with Netscape Communicator 4.x?
9. I see dots and lines instead of my Dynamic Fonts. How do I fix this?
10. I see rectangles instead of letters on the screen. What's going on?
11. Why do I see a white outline around the characters on my page?
12. There is a white fringe around Dynamic Font in Netscape
13. Dynamic Fonts look jagged or rough or uneven in Internet Explorer
14. The fonts disappeared when I switched applications. What do I do?
15. The fonts disappeared when I resized the window. What do I do?
16. I can see the fonts on some pages just fine, but not on others. Why not?
17. Why is the background behind the text really ugly, making the text unreadable?
18. What is webfont player?
19. Do the font files (PFRs) cache?
20. What are the Benefits of Dynamic Fonts
21. Why are dynamic fonts better than bitmap images?
22. How Dynamic Fonts Work for Web Authors ?
23. How to Use Dynamic Fonts ?
24. What are the tags required for using dynamic fonts?
25. How can I support IE 4 or higher with tags?
26. Do dynamic fonts work with Cascading Style Sheets?
27. Is there a W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) recommendation for dynamic fonts?
28. How can I use dynamic fonts with cascading style sheets ?
29. Can people steal my fonts from my web site?
30. What is DocLock?
31. Can I share a PFR among multiple HTML files? Can I use more than one PFR in a single document?
32. Do I have to create separate PFRs for every site?
33. Are PFRs cached?
34. What is meant by PFR Pre-Loading technique?
35. What is character set subsetting in Dynamic Fonts?
36. Can I use dynamic fonts with HTML documents published to disk?
37. How dynamic fonts work in web browsers ?
38. What is webFont Player?
39. How webFont player is geting installed to the viewer's computer?
40. What can I do with my dynamic font documents for browsers that do not support dynamic fonts?
41. What is the use of Alternate Font?
42. Which are the most common fonts in the OS ?
43. There is a white fringe around the WebFont (dynamic font) text?
44. When I used dynamic fonts on a colored background, the color around the text is different from the rest of the background, only in a Netscape browser.
45. I see dots and lines instead of my dynamic fonts. How do I fix this?
46. Which are the methods for specifying the text of an HTML document?
47. When I use characters beyond the ASCII position 126, they are not displayed in every browser. Why?
48. What characters in these nuxxxxxxxmeric?
49. I have authored a page with dynamic fonts, but it is not working. Why?
50. How Dynamic Fonts (.pfr/.eot) Work in IE
51. How to Declare a PFR MIME Type?
52. How to Declare a PFR MIME Type in the Windows NT 4 Server ?
53. How to Use Dynamic Fonts in IE
54. The dynamic fonts are not working on my page.
55. I can see the fonts in my pages just fine, but other people can't.
56. Why do I see a white outline around the characters on my page?
57. When I specify a background color for my text, the background color is dithered and the text is hard to read. Why?
58. I see rectangles (missing glyph boxes) instead of characters on some of the pages on my site. How do I get rid of them?
59. I updated my page and the PFRs/EOT associated with it. Now I am missing characters from my documents. Why?
60. Why can't I see dynamic fonts with Netscape Communicator 4.x?
61. I can see the fonts on some pages just fine, but not on others. Why not?
62. Why do I see a white outline around the characters on my page?
63. The fonts disappeared when I switched applications. What do I do?
64. Why is the background behind the text really ugly, making the text unreadable?
65. The fonts disappeared when I resized the window. What do I do?
66. The dynamic fonts look "jagged" (rough, uneven) when I'm viewing them with Internet Explorer. What should I do?
67. I see rectangles instead of letters on the screen. What's going on?