Limited iWeb Fonts

I've looked at a few other threads on here and I'm not having a specific font issue...the problem is iWeb is giving me very limited fonts to choose from, and not letting me import any others. For example, my font list in iWeb looks like this...3 Arials in different sizes, 2 Arial Bolds, and about 5 other random fonts (most of which I'm sure aren't web-safe). Is there a way to reset iWeb's font selection to default? Is there a specific iWeb font folder? Any tips?

You probably have a problem with the application "Font Book". All of the fonts are located there. So when an application opens the font window, fonts are received from Font Book. What I can recommended that you do is check other applications that have a font window, check them to see if you have the same problem, and if they do it's something wrong with Font Book. If it's that I would contact Apple about that. If it's not that, it must be a problem with iWeb. If that refresh the iWeb cache by doing this,
1 - delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder.
2 - go to your User/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete the contents.
3 - reboot.
4 - launch iWeb and see if the fonts will appear.
- That will possibly take care of the problem
Hope this helps,
Tom
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IWeb Fonts List

I've been having some iWeb font problems. From reading in here, I can see others have as well. In my research within this site and other places I've found some information that I think might be useful. There is a file buried within the Domain file that tells iWeb how to handle fonts. It lists fonts that are commonly found on Macs and tells it what font to substitute if the site is being viewed on a PC that doesn't have the same font (it has tried to map fonts that are as close to the same style as possible - but it is a pretty limited list because it's trying to use ones most PCs will have). It also tells iWeb that some specific fonts should be converted to an image. These are fonts like "Marker Felt" or "Cracked" or "Handwriting Dakota" that are very graphic in their design. Only the fonts that are included in this list and are specified to be converted to an image will show the little icon by your text box in iWeb when you have the "Text imaging indicator" turned on in the Preferences. I have many fonts that I've purchased that are not on this list. They will still be converted to an image when the site is published even though they don't have the icon by them when viewing the page in iWeb. I learned about this from a website posted on this forum that has been very helpful.
http://11mystics.com/blog/2007/09/12/how-can-i-ensure-the-fonts-i-use-will-look- good-on-a-pc/
As explained on the llmystics.com site, it is possible to edit this list. I added a font that I like to use to the list and indicated that it should be converted to an image. The little icon that says it will be converted now shows up.
This may be information overload, but here are all of the Mac fonts that are included in this iWeb font conversion list. I haven't included the names of the PC fonts that they will be converted to, and I haven't split out which ones are being told to become an image. This is just FYI so that you can tell if your font isn't listed here, it will definitely be converted to an image even though it won't look like it in iWeb because the icon won't be by the text box. I know it's hard to read, but at least the list is in alphabetical order..... hope this is helpful. By the way, I'm still having a problem that someone else listed. I'm trying to use Optima on my site. It looks fine in iWeb. When it's published, it shows up looking much bolder than it should. If I convert it to an image by putting a shadow on it like others in these discussions have indicated, then it looks ok. So, I'm not sure why it doesn't seem to be handling the Optima font correctly when it's not a graphic. Since I'm using the same computer to view the webpage that I created it on in iWeb, it would seem that it would have the identical font available to display it correctly. Don't it just make you crazy....
AmericanTypewriter, AmericanTypewriter-Bold, AmericanTypewriter-Condensed, AmericanTypewriter-CondensedBold, AmericanTypewriter-CondensedLight, AmericanTypewriter-Light, Apple-Chancery, AppleCasual, Arial-Black, Arial-BoldItalicMS, Arial-BoldItalicMT, Arial-BoldMS, Arial-BoldMT, Arial-ItalicMS, Arial-ItalicMT, ArialMS, ArialMT, ArialNarrow, ArialNarrow-Bold, ArialNarrow-BoldItalic, ArialNarrow-Italic, ArialRoundedMTBold, AvantGardeMonoITCTT, AvantGardeMonoITCTT-Bold, AvantGardeMonoITCTT-BoldIta, AvantGardeMonoITCTT-Italic, AvantGardeMonoITCTTBold, AvantGardeMonoITCTTBoldIta, AvantGardeMonoITCTTItalic, BankGothic-Light, BankGothic-Medium, Baskerville, Baskerville-Bold, Baskerville-BoldItalic, Baskerville-Italic, Baskerville-SemiBold, Baskerville-SemiBoldItalic, Big Caslon, BigCaslon-Medium, BlairMdITCTT-Medium, BodoniSvtyTwoITCTT-Bold, BodoniSvtyTwoITCTT-Book, BodoniSvtyTwoITCTT-BookIta, BodoniSvtyTwoITCTTBold, BodoniSvtyTwoITCTTBook, BodoniSvtyTwoITCTTBookIta, BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT-Book, BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTTBold, BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTTBook, BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTTBookIt, BradleyHandITCTTBold, CapitalsRegular, Chalkboard, Chalkboard-Bold, Charcoal, Chicago, Cochin, Cochin-Bold, Cochin-BoldItalic, Cochin-Italic, Comic Sans MS, Copperplate, Copperplate-Bold, Copperplate-Light, Courier, Courier-Bold, CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT, CourierNewPS-BoldMT, CourierNewPS-ItalicMT, CourierNewPSMT, Cracked, Didot, Didot-Bold, Didot-Italic, Futura-CondensedExtraBold, Futura-CondensedMedium, Futura-Medium, Futura-MediumItalic, GadgetRegular, Geneva, Georgia, Georgia-Bold, Georgia-BoldItalic, Georgia-Italic, GillSans, GillSans-Bold, GillSans-BoldItalic, GillSans-Italic, GillSans-Light, GillSans-LightItalic, Handwriting-Dakota, Helvetica, Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-BoldOblique, Helvetica-Oblique, HelveticaNeue, HelveticaNeue-Bold, HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic, HelveticaNeue-CondensedBlack, HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold, HelveticaNeue-Italic, HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeue-LightItalic, HelveticaNeue-UltraLight, HelveticaNeue-UltraLightItalic, HiraKakuPro-W3, HiraKakuPro-W6, HiraKakuStd-W8, HiraMaruPro-W4, HiraMinPro-W3, HiraMinPro-W6, HoeflerText-Black, HoeflerText-BlackItalic, HoeflerText-Italic, HoeflerText-Regular, HumanaSerifITCTT-Light, HumanaSerifITCTT-LightItalic, HumanaSerifITCTTLight, HumanaSerifITCTTLightItalic, Impact, JensonOldStyleTT, LucidaGrande, LucidaGrande-Bold, MarkerFelt-Thin, MarkerFelt-Wide, MS-Gothic, MS-Mincho, MS-PGothic, MS-PMincho, MonaLisaSolidITCTT, Monaco, NewYork, Optima, Optima-Regular, Osaka, Osaka-Mono, Palatino-Bold, Palatino-BoldItalic, Palatino-Italic, Palatino-Roman, PortagoITCTT, SantaFeLetPlain, SchoolHouseCursiveB, SchoolHousePrintedA, Skia-Regular, SnellRoundhand, SnellRoundhand-Black, SnellRoundhand-Bold, SouvenirMonoITCTT, SouvenirMonoITCTT-Bold, SouvenirMonoITCTT-Italic, SouvenirMonoITCTTBold, SouvenirMonoITCTTItalic, SynchroLET, Times, Times-Bold, Times-BoldItalic, Times-Italic, Times-Roman, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT, TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPSMT, Trebuchet-BoldItalic, TrebuchetMS, TrebuchetMS-Bold, TrebuchetMS-Italic, UniversityRomanBoldLetPlain, Verdana, Verdana-Bold, Verdana-BoldItalic, Verdana-Italic, Zapfino

Thank you piper angel,
I am sure this information will be very useful for many. Another way to force a font to be saved as a graphic is to add a shadow and move the opacity slider to 0 the shadow will not show and the font will be read as a graphic. (that's for folks who don't want to mess into the files that make iweb work.
Mireille

IWeb font not working on PC Internet Explorer

Hey Guys,
I have recently put up a quickie iWeb site for a short film I wrote and directed at www.greatpretendersmovie.com and have been sending friends, family and most importantly, interested film festivals to that website to take alook. But while visiting a friend and showing them the site I found out - to my horror- that my nice American Typewriter font on the main homepage, which looks fine on any Mac, is showing up as some kind of generic lo res Courier looking font on a PC running Internet explorer. The odd thing is I use this font on every page - and on some (the Cast page, for instance) it looks the way it should, and on some (The Trailer & Clips page) - it has the same blocky primitive appearance. anyone got any ideas?
Thanks!
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(oh, and if you happen to take a look, let me know what you think of the movie!)
PowerMac Dual 2.3 ghz, MacBook Pro Intel Core duo 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Welcome to the discussions, Jeremy.
Since you used American Typewriter and it's rendering on your pages as text instead of a graphic, this means that the target browser will use American Typewriter if available. If not, it falls back to Courier. You'd probably see the same thing if you viewed on a Mac that doesn't have American Typewriter either.
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Steve ~ If you're publishing to MobileMe, MobileMe live chat support is now 24/7 — see this announcement. You can also let Apple know via this form:
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hello out there,
I have recently published my website and viewed it on PC and discovered that all the fonts was not in the format I had chosen when building my site. The family of font I chose was Herculanum in upper case. When choosing this font, upper case is the only choice- lower case is not an option. The PC had all the text scrambled, in lower case and in another chosen font. The PC is a Microsoft Windows with a 2008 Vista operating system. Does this have any bearing on my dilemma. Could Windows have not recognized my chosen text and went to default mode? When I mail the site address to my Mac everything is as it should be. Hope there is some help out there.
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You'll have to do it with javascript since the navbar is javascript created and driven. Cyclosaurus has posted tips on changing font size and rollover color but I can't find one on default color. I vaguely remember a post about that but couldn't find it.
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Web safe fonts are shown here...
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by omontoya:
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