#HOW TO FORMAT FONTS IN SKYPE INSTALL#

These kits include the CSS file for the font, which defines the properties you need, and the font files. Since 95% of the work is done for you (did I also mention free?), we’ll use Font Squirrel’s font face kits. IE supports the EOT format, while most other browsers support TrueType (TTF) and some OpenType (OTF) format fonts. All major browsers, including Internet Explorer 7, 8, and 9, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari, currently support using the font-face attribute, but of course they are implemented differently. The CSS and font files are quite small, taking up only a few kilobytes each, so it shouldn’t add a lot of overhead to your projects. You can use the fonts locally, in addition to on a server. This should work similarly in Adobe Robohelp.

MadCap’s Flare help authoring tool (HAT) uses CSS to style its WebHelp, so you can easily embed fonts into your help. There are thousands of free fonts out there, but not all font creators support font embedding, so be sure to read any license agreement before using them in your projects. The web site Font Squirrel creates the CSS for you, using only free, embeddable fonts.

#HOW TO FORMAT FONTS IN SKYPE INSTALL#

However, you can also save and host freely available font files on your company’s web server, or install on your users’ PCs, and use these fonts in your WebHelp projects. New technologies have sprouted up, with Google creating its own font API, and Adobe announcing font support through TypeKit. Have you ever been bored using Georgia, Tahoma, Verdana, and (sigh…) Arial over and over in your help projects? The font-face property has been available for some time in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), but browser and font foundry support are only now allowing use of fonts other than those that ship with operating systems and applications, without workarounds like sIFR and cufon. It requires knowledge of HTML, CSS, and a help authoring tool such as MadCap Flare or Adobe Robohelp.

This story is for intermediate to advanced help developers.

How to format fonts in skype