Question Installing Fonts to client?

[steveb46]

Hi,

We have about 2,000 fonts in all (all are licensed). They are all postscript fonts (.pfb). We're converting them over to (.TTF) so they can be used. The user will select a handful of these fonts to be made available to them. This handful needs to be made available to them. I looked briefly at WEFT, but not sure if I can script it to tell which fonts I want made available. I've installed fonts in VB6 for a windows application before, but not for ASP. Is it possible to install fonts dynamically from ASP? Any security box prompts are ok. Appreciate any guidance.

TIA,
Steve

 

[kulrom]

Well you cannot directly install the fonts to the visitor computer but, you can give them an option saying:
e.g. "you don't have blahblah font so you can't view the page correctly. Click here to download and install."

 

[kulrom]

Or you may want to try something like the following sIFR | Mike Industries

 

[steveb46]

I had a sample of 40 fonts installed on my computer. Is it possible to reference by the filename.ttf as opposed to the family name. Trying to add a family name to a configuration of 2,000 fonts, is no small task. Will take a long time. Changing font via new system.drawing.font only seems to use families... is there another way?