Dynamic Image Creation to replace Font Embedding
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Loading ...One major caveat for most web developers is the font limitations you encounter on the web. Browsers can only display specific registered fonts because of the differences between browsers and platforms. There’s no way to bridge this gap and forcing visitors to download and install specialized fonts before viewing your site is not an acceptable solution. Now there’s a better way.
In the past, your only option was to resort to font embedding; but font embedding requires additional software to prepare your font packages, it is not widely supported, development on the technology has come to a crawl, and it is supported differently by the major browsers. That means one font package and code set for IE-compatible browsers and another for Firefox. It’s not supported by Opera at all!
Enter the need for another solution.
With broadband internet gaining popularity, web developers have moved over to images to fill the need for specialized fonts. Images are created with local fonts and displayed to the reader–a perfectly compatible solution, but not without it’s own shortcomings.
This means that images can only display predefined text. Unless, of course, there was a way to create dynamic images on the fly. And there is!
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