Re: Ascii output to php/html like nfodiz viewer
From CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk>
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· 11 Apr 2002 20:06 · View full thread
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vt025509 writes >what kind of font i must use to get the output from a nfo.file [the ones >that are in de released games etc, or isonews.org] the same as in nfodiz >file viewer ? >the font in that program is terminal, and when im using terminal font on my >webpage [php] no blocks are showing, only lines. > >Anyone has a solution for this or is this impossible ? > > ms-linedraw.ttf is a crud(e) replacement for Terminal.fon for on-line usage it will need to be converted to a dynamic web-font of which only a few browsers are capable displaying eg: Ns4 Ns6.x has dynamic fonts disabled (yes... i've complained :() Ie4.x and Ie5.x are also capable but require additional driver/player i did a couple of experiments some time ago ... with mixed results i used Bitstream's Web-Font maker to produce a .pfr file (pfr == portable font resource) from ms-linedraw.ttf take a look at: http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk/ansi-X/test/ibm_pfr.html http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk/ansi-X/test/swolf_pfr.html altho' i can't guarantee it'll work with your browser and in fact the only ones are Ns4.5 (not Ns6!) and Ie4 and Ie5 running on win32 (i haven't tried Ns4.6 on unix/linux/gnu-system but i don't see why it shouldn't work) there is also a large overhead penalty involved: page size: 5 Kb text/html data: 8-bit font size: 20 Kb font/tdpfr truedoc pfr tdserver.cab: 200 Kb bitstream.com [IExplorer only] -- __ ___ __ :::/ |_ | .`):: ::( (-| | | <::: :::\__|___|_|_\::
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