check visitor's computer for installed font

[dpk136]

Is there a way to check the visitor's computer for an installed font. This is a secure site that they will know the reasoning for it, so security is not an issue. thanks.


David Kuhn
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http://www.davidpkuhn.com

 

[ericbrunson]

Not in PHP, you'd need to do some sort of client side scripting, like Javascript. There is a Javascript forum and this question was discussed there within the last few weeks.

 

[ericbrunson]

P.S. Creating a site that requires a certain font is very poor web design.

 

[dpk136]

it's not bad web design if you are doing it for a purpose... like a barcode. it needs to be on there.

David Kuhn
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http://www.davidpkuhn.com

 

[ChrisHirst]

embedding fonts faq215-4042



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[Olavxxx]

I actually have a php script that can generate barcodes from strings.. (different types too)..

shout out if you be wantin' it.

Olav Alexander Mjelde

http://www.volvo-power.net

Admin & Webmaster

 

[ingresman]

In general though Eric is correct, I've only ever done it for a corporate font on an intranet.

 

[HMarcBower]

Olav - Can it do codabar? If so, I'm interested.

 

[Olavxxx]

http://www.geocities.com/wcattebeke/files/barcode.zip

FEATURES
* Different barcodes types supported: Currently Code 3 of 9, Interleave 2 of 5,
Standard 2 of 5 and Code 93.
* Different image formats supported: JPG, PNG, GIF, WBMP.
* Barcode size control: width of bars, height of bars, intercharacter gap, wide
to narrow ratio.
* Barcode style control: inverted barcode, text label, image rotation, check
digit.

I was thinking of using this for member-cards, as I then can use a unique value for making the barcodes.

eg. I was planning to use sprintf() to manipulate:
1 -> 00000000001
2 -> 00000000002
22 -> 00000000022
etc.. so it would pad the value with 0
(userid)

Olav Alexander Mjelde

http://www.volvo-power.net

Admin & Webmaster