Safari display fonts

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Safari display fonts

I was just curious if its just me or is it the fact that safari cannot display Monotype Corsiva? ive been making a few sites for my clients that use Monotype Corsiva i have it installe din my username>library>fonts, came with office 2004, displays fine in firefox but not in safari..is there any way to fix this

for example:
http://www.myspace.com/cats_eyes is a friends sit ethat use monotype at the tope of the page, id otn have any of mine uploaded so thats best example i could com eup with.

thanks!!!

ugh...

MacPro 2.66ghz / 500gb / 2gb Ram / ATI, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Mar 10, 2007 12:24 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 10, 2007 3:27 PM in response to AppleNewton

The Web uses only a handful of fonts for any Site.
Any other font used must also be installed on the viewing machine or the browser will revert to default font use.
It's not a limitation of Safari. It is a rule of Web page creation.

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Answer 2

AppleNewton Author

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Mar 10, 2007 4:32 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

welli do have it installed, it works fine in Firefox which is weird

i was wondering cananyone else view that site?

the monotype is that top wher eit says Home, Browse etc and on various portions o hte page,,i found that site becaus ei havent uplaoded any of my content yet because of it being incompatible.

thanks again!

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Answer 3

Tom Gewecke

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Mar 10, 2007 4:51 PM in response to AppleNewton

Anyone who has ever had MS Office installed on their machine, even the free trial, probably has the Corsiva font. You are correct, Safari will not display it from that url. It will certainly display it in other circumstances, as you can demonstrate by setting this as the default in Safari > Preferences > Appearance. So it is probably some issue involving the particular html code that the font stipulation is a part of on that page which Safari does not recognize.

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