Fortunately, many of the advances coming to the display of web documents are equally useful for printing. Over the past year, Bitstream has been working closely with industry leaders to resolve the problems of formatting, displaying, and printing web documents. This work, combined with Bitstream's experience in the font and printing industries has led to a number of insights in the areas of fonts, style sheets, and media types. In the following paragraphs, we will share these insights. Fonts Fonts lend an important ambiance to textual material.
Corporations demand the ability to preserve their look and feel in web documents.
Corporate font portfolios include unusual, custom fonts, and it is unlikely that users will have the same fonts installed on their systems. Requirements of Reliable Font Usage Authors require the ability to use their fonts on their pages. They expect pages to render properly when displayed or printed, whether or not the viewing system has the fonts, and regardless of platform. Document viewers do not want to download bandwidth intensive image files or complete fonts, nor do they want to incur the expense or liability of distributing copyrighted fonts to end users. Ensure that the font is available for both viewing and printing the document while minimizing bandwidth and protecting intellectual property rights Associate the font data with the document.