Embed font issue driving me crazy

[jvanree]

Hi,

For months I've tried to embed a font into zencart, and I just can't get it right. It's probably due to my limited knowledge of css. First I tried sifr, but without any luck, I didn't know where to put the codes and all. I've tried a milion things but without luck.

Now I decided to try the eot. fonts from microsoft. And it makes me this code (after it tells me it can't see my website either on the internet or on localhost and than it gives me a code {Stand alone fonts}

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!-- /* $WEFT -- Created by: Jvabree (no_mailforprivacy_reasosn######################) on 8-5-2008 -- */
@font-face {
font-family: decorative fontFINAL;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: url(file:///C:\Documents and Settings\Juliet van Ree\DECORAT0.eot);
}
-->
</STYLE>


and if I put it in the stylesheet it gives me a error parsing styles affects ie 6.0

I've tried testing it on localhost and moved the font to my zen directory and adjusted the src accordingly.

Now I'm probably doing something very stupid here, it wouldn't be the first time I tried to paste jscript into css or something like that, but I really would like to get it right. Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance and please have mercy on my stupidity.

Juliet van Ree

[rstevenson]

Just guessing...

Guess #1: What did you paste into your stylesheet? All the code in red in your post? If so, that's too much. Paste in only the part from the @ symbol down to the closing curly bracket. Does it work now? If not...

Guess #2: I wonder if the spaces in the URI are not working within the stylesheet. They may need to be stated in code form by replacing each space with %20 (I think that's the right code.)

Guess #3: Maybe you'll need to do both of the above guesses.

Rob

[kobra]

I've tried testing it on localhost and moved the font to my zen directory and adjusted the src accordingly.

Now I'm probably doing something very stupid here, it wouldn't be the first time I tried to paste jscript into css or something like that, but I really would like to get it right. Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Fonts available are not controlled by you - only by the fonts available at the customers local and browser.

If you want to use one for impact - make it an image with alt text

[yellow1912]

1. you can not embed font any more, that doesnt work on most modern browsers
2. the only way to go, if you dont like images is to use sifr

[jvanree]

Thank you all for your answers, it gives me a lot to think about but I'm more confident now I will find a solution for all of the font things. I'll post here to let you know what my final solution will be for applying an alternative font