Font experts - need some help

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Font experts - need some help

What font that PC Windows users have is similar in appearance to Bank Gothic medium?

Would love to know what i could have iWeb substitute Bank Gothic medium with via the FontMapping.plist on PC's and IE. As it is now, they see the Bank Gothic medium as Ariel on my site. Horrible.

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Right now? Intel mini, Mac OS X (10.4.10), A few laptops, a few stationary ones...i like macs

Posted on Oct 2, 2007 12:48 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Oct 2, 2007 1:24 PM in response to Mac Mini Supersize

The most reliable way to make sure your font is seen the way you want it is to add a tiny bit of shadow, which should turn it into a graphic.

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Answer 2

Oct 2, 2007 1:29 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks for the reply. Oh yeah, i almost forgot about that whole debate. Problem with that is i have a lot of text and it being turned into a .png graphic doesn't exactly help the site performance in regards to PC and IE users.

Still, it's either that, finding a font similar to BGm or taking a screencapture of the text, turning it into a .jpg file and putting it into your iWeb site.

To bad about this whole font thing.

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Oct 2, 2007 1:53 PM in response to Mac Mini Supersize

Well, i actually tried taking a screencapture of the text as published on my site and turned it into a .jpg image, replaced the original text with it and published. Looks great with no apparent quality loss. How do i know iWeb hasn't turned it into a .png though?

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Akdream

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Oct 2, 2007 2:26 PM in response to Mac Mini Supersize

right-click on it and download I guess would be a way to see the extension...

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Roddy

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Oct 2, 2007 2:44 PM in response to Mac Mini Supersize

Publish to a folder and look inside the one for the page your "text photo" is on.

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Answer 6

Oct 2, 2007 2:50 PM in response to Roddy

Thank you Roddy, guess that should've been obvious.

It hadn't converted any of the .jpg's into .png's. This might just work.

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Roddy

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Oct 2, 2007 2:56 PM in response to Mac Mini Supersize

The optimizer application I use now optimizes JPEGs in the latest version. There's quite a dramatic reduction in size. You might want to consider it if you get carried away with your new technique.

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Answer 8

Oct 2, 2007 3:03 PM in response to Mac Mini Supersize

The Internet only uses a handful of fonts. Use the Font Book app to view them.
Any non Web safe fonts will be converted to PNG (image format) when you publish from iWeb.
Bank Gothic is not a Web safe font.

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Cyclosaurus

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Oct 2, 2007 7:25 PM in response to Mac Mini Supersize

Would love to know what i could have iWeb substitute Bank Gothic medium with via the FontMapping.plist on PC's and IE. As it is now, they see the Bank Gothic medium as Ariel on my site. Horrible.

Suzanne Boben has a video tutorial on Font Mapping:
http://11mystics.com/blog/2007/09/12/how-can-i-ensure-the-fonts-i-use-will-look- good-on-a-pc/

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There are two easy ways to turn text into graphic:
1) Putting text in shape rather than text box.
2) See my post (HL) in Suzanne's blog (above).

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