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I have a web site that uses a non-latin alphabet. I normally need to convert the text to a gif to have it available for everyone to see. I thought that version 5 was going to have a way to save the text and not have to convert it to a GIF?

Has anyone seen this capability?

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Sometime around 18/2/08 (at 22:33 -0500) Steve said:

I have a web site that uses a non-latin alphabet. I normally need
to convert the text to a gif to have it available for everyone to
see. I thought that version 5 was going to have a way to save the
text and not have to convert it to a GIF?

If a typeface isn’t available on the computer of every visitor to
your web page, then those visitors won’t be able to see your text in
the correct typeface - unless you set it as a graphic. That’s a basic
fact of life I’m afraid!

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Well that was the way it used to be. You had to change it to a graphic, but somewhere I read in the Freeway 5 info that there was a way (maybe with unicode) to have a foreign font show up as regular text and not a graphic. I just can’t find the exact info at this time.

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OK I found it. It says:
UNICODE—BECAUSE IT’S NOT SUCH A SMALL, SMALL, WORLD
Unicode text allows you to mix characters from many languages within a single line of text. Visitors to your site don’t need to have special fonts for each language, or to select the page language from a list—it just works. Each Unicode font can contain tens of thousands of characters or glyphs.
http://www.softpress.com/products/freewayfeatures.php

They are mixing Chinese, Russion text.

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Sometime around 20/2/08 (at 01:07 -0500) Steve said:

OK I found it. It says:
UNICODE-BECAUSE IT’S NOT SUCH A SMALL, SMALL, WORLD
Unicode text allows you to mix characters from many languages within
a single line of text.

Aha. This means you have access to the thousands of characters (or
glyphs) in the standard web-safe fonts. NOT that you can use any
unicode font.

This isn’t something that can be changed by any application, it is a
fact of HTML life. The whole ‘web-safe font’ concept (see
http://www.thetypographic.com/lecture/websafefonts.html) still stands.

http://www.softpress.com/products/freewayfeatures.php

They are mixing Chinese, Russion text.

But all set using the same web-safe fonts.

Sorry!

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