Server Help :: View topic - news.txt custom font

Server Help

General Questions - news.txt custom font

Anonymous - Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:15 am
Post subject: news.txt custom font

I know you can edit news.txt to make it all fancy w/ colors but can you add your own downloaded fonts to it, and make it vieweable to other playerse?

Spyed - Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:42 am
Post subject: Re: news.txt custom font

Anonymous wrote:

I know you can edit news.txt to make it all fancy w/ colors but can you add your own downloaded fonts to it, and make it vieweable to other playerse?

Just use Hyperspace's news.txt. Dr Brain doesn't mind :P

Bak - Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:13 am
Post subject:

no, it's just a RTF file w/o any images

and it only works on newer OSes.... people with windows 98 will see garbage

newb - Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:28 am
Post subject: Re: news.txt custom font

Guest wrote:

I know you can edit news.txt to make it all fancy w/ colors but can you add your own downloaded fonts to it, and make it vieweable to other playerse?

Yeah, I think you can add custom fonts, since it's just a font. Just make sure no pictures are included in your news.txt.

Use wordpad to do this, save this as an .rtf file, then rename to news.txt.

Spyed - Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:01 pm
Post subject:

I made a thread like this recently :)

Cerium - Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:05 pm
Post subject:

Hes asking if you can include a non-standard font that may not be present on another users machine, the answer to which is: no.

Mr Ekted - Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:35 pm
Post subject:

Doesn't the rich text renderer simply choose some default font if it can't find a matching one?

Cerium - Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:13 pm
Post subject:

Yeah, but hes asking if the font can be included, so it wont ever have to use a default font.

Cyan~Fire - Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:04 pm
Post subject:

RTF supports embeded fonts, but I don't know of any editors that have that feature.

Cerium - Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:27 pm
Post subject:

Oh, nifty. I did not know that.

Cyan~Fire - Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:40 pm
Post subject:

Nah, RTF sucks.

SpecShip - Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:05 am
Post subject:

Don't think you can include fonts.
But nothing stops you from displaying a link for the fonts and having ppl d/l them and install them.
From there on they'll see the desired font.

Default - Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:54 am
Post subject:

It also works in Office Words.