Re: Font embedding

On Sat, 8 May 1999, James Campbell wrote:

>
> I take your point - I suppose that Type 1s are safer in this respect?
>
Even though ATM does all kinds of incredible things
to insinuate itself in your machine, it seems to be a safer option.
Of course, any X server supports Type1 directly.

>
> Actually, I've gone down the many-tiny-gifs route myself for my Rahha pages
> (in preparation, not available yet). I wrote a small program which generates
> the HTML and IMG tags required to display the text in the Rahha script; I
> just type in the text in the Latin transcription, click the button and the
> HTML is all done for me. The only problem, of course, is that although the
> gifs are tiny and therefore download really quickly, the page HTML itself
> quickly becomes vast, resulting in slow downloads. Oh well.
>
I'd be interested in that code: I'm currently working on a page
about the Denden chancery script, and I thought I'd take the GIF
route too, but I'm a bit afraid of all the work.

Boudewijn Rempt  | www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt