Substitute font choices when publishing to HTML?
April 11, 2013 12:00 AM
Is there a place in Lectora Inspire to specify substitute fonts? We are developing some training that utilizes Bank Gothic and Myriad Pro fonts, but they are not common across every computer that our product will be used on around the world (but they are on most). So when we publish to HTML, either of those fonts are shown in Times New Roman if they don't have the original fonts. I know in HTML code you can specify 2nd and 3rd choices if the initial font is not found, so is there a spot in Lectora to adjust that setting?
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Already asked and answered: http://lectora.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12678
@ssneg 50135 wrote:
Already asked and answered: http://lectora.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12678
Sorry, I never got a notification of your reply...
But I work at a military facility, and for security reasons any file sharing service is blocked by our web filtering. So all of the examples in that thread being on Dropbox prevents me from doing anything with them. From what I gathered from that thread, the people are wanting to use the web-based fonts offered by Google, et al, that can be 'linked' to in your coding. That's much more in depth than what we're looking for. We just want it to default to another font when the one we specify is not available...but NOT default to Times. It would be nice to use Google fonts, etc., but most of our content will be used on machines that are not connected to the outside world.
Also, I take that to mean there is no setting in Lectora to easily select substitute fonts? We have quickly become more and more disappointed with this program and the amount of "workarounds" we've had to implement just to get it to do fairly common things.
If you can't use Google fonts, you can use local fonts (get them from Font Squirrell) just as well.
You can also use JQuery to overwrite font-family rules on the fly.
Also, Lectora is quite good at what it's meant to do: quickly create crude but working HTML for people with zero HTML skills. And it also provides a relatively strong foundation to take that HTML to the next level if you got skills. Although I must admit, it COULD be better in many ways, both for creating better HTML and for providing better tools for power-users.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11433463/customfont/page_1.html
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11433463/customfont/customwebfont.pkg
@ssneg 50302 wrote:
If you can't use Google fonts, you can use local fonts (get them from Font Squirrell) just as well.You can also use JQuery to overwrite font-family rules on the fly.
Also, Lectora is quite good at what it's meant to do: quickly create crude but working HTML for people with zero HTML skills. And it also provides a relatively strong foundation to take that HTML to the next level if you got skills. Although I must admit, it COULD be better in many ways, both for creating better HTML and for providing better tools for power-users.
Do you have any examples of this? I'm having the same above issue where I need to use 2 different kinds of fonts in my courses.
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