OKay, so I go and download all these real spiffy fonts and stuff and word balloons and special doo hickys and, well you know, and I use them all on my comic; so then what?? Am I then the ONLY one that will see them cause NO ONE else has installed these?? Will anyone else be able to see these fonts?? Or am I better off just sticking with Windows default fonts so that everyone can read them instead of just a few that happen to have comic fonts installed? Someone PLEASE enlighten me, this is so frustrating! Thanks, ~3D

If you embed the fonts in an image, or - if they are freeware or shareware fonts - place them in a downloadable file on your front page, then any visitor can use them; otherwise the browser will search their system for the "closest" font it can find and use that to display if the font is not present.

Thanks ;-)

What about doo hickey's and stars and Booms and Kapows and all that odd stuff we don't have as a default and when someone doesn't install them, what would they see?? Just curious?? And incidently the reason I asked is someone told me this may be a problem, but I have browsed comics many times and NEVER installed any comic fonts but have no problem seeing them, why??? What do you mean by embed?? Explain please??

if they are part of the bitmapped image, (rather than the image being included in a text file) they will show up.

You can also add rasterized text in PhotoShop or another paint program if you do post production work. If its done that way you won't need to worry if someone has a particular font installed. You would save the art as a JPEG or GIF.

To sum up ... If it is a picture it doesn't need the fonts. That is embedding ... It becomes part of the picture. Which means you can't edit it later unless you save another file ...

Hear that Molly?? Let's go party, yipeeeeeeeeee! ..................see ya..........................3D..............and thanks!

Take a snapshot of your fonts and post them. That way they see your fonts as a picture.

{What about doo hickey's and stars and Booms and Kapows and all that odd stuff we don't have as a default and when someone doesn't install them, what would they see??} They're called "Dingbats" (my dad worked as a printer for years...). Usually, if the font is ornate (like most Dingbat/Wingding fonts tend to be), Windows defaults to the Symbol font set (mostly Greek and mathematical characters), or at least this has been my experience. {And incidently the reason I asked is someone told me this may be a problem, but I have browsed comics many times and NEVER installed any comic fonts but have no problem seeing them, why???} Generally, the person who designed the site did one of three things: 1) Included the text baloons as part of the image - that way the page looks the same to EVERYONE visiting the site, whether they have the font or not. 2) Included a list of alternate fonts in the HTML (I've seen these tags - they're a NIGHTMARE to figure out, but work very well). THese lists search the visitor's font directory until they find a match against the list (first searching by Font Name, then by Font Family), and use that font. 3) Your computer interpreted whatever font they did use as one your system has installed (or you actually DO have the font installed but didn't know it). {What do you mean by embed?? Explain please?? } In the context I used it in, I meant the text is part of the image, not a separate file/page element (just as GhostofMacbeth, Gawain, and krbtv said in different words). But if the page was done in a PDF format, fonts can actually be embedded in the page via an "Embed Font" command - I don't remember exactly how it works, but you can elect to have the entire font included with the file (but only for that file), only the characters used included, or the file searches your font list for a best match.