Using Adobe GoLive CS, Part 1

Fonts on the Web are an interesting thing because no matter which font you assign to text on a page, the visitor must have the same font on his computer for the text to look the same way in his browser as it does in yours. Font sets are listings of fonts assigned to text that help get around this limitation somewhat. The font that is listed first is the one the browser will attempt to load first. If it does not find the font on the visitor's computer, it looks for the second font in the list and so on.

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Note - Although font sets, which write <font> tags into the HTML, are still valid today, it is highly recommended that you use Cascading Style Sheets to format your text instead. CSS gives you more flexibility and allows you to make quick updates simply by editing the style sheet. You'll find more information in the section " Using Cascading Style Sheets," later in this chapter.

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To create a font set, click the Font Sets tab of the Site window, and then do one of the following:

• Click the Site set of Objects in the Objects palette, and then drag and drop a Font Set icon into the Font Sets tab.

• Click the Site set of Objects in the Objects palette, and then double-click the Font Set icon.

• (Control-click) [right-click] in the Font Sets tab, and select New Font Set from the menu.

• Choose Site, New, Font Set from the main menu bar.

Next, use the Inspector palette to set the attributes of the font set (see Figure 9.23). Select a name for the Font set and type it into the Name field. Click the Create New Font Family button at the bottom of the Inspector palette to add a predefined font set, or the New Font button to add individual fonts to a font set. Move fonts up or down in the font set list using the arrows in the Inspector palette. Delete a font from a set by selecting it in the list in the Inspector palette and clicking the Trash button. Delete an entire font set by selecting it in the Font set tab and pressing the Delete key on your keyboard.

Figure 9.23 Define a font set in the Inspector palette.

To assign a font set to text, first select the text on the page. Then from the menu bar choose Type, Font, and select the name of the set from the list.

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Tip - To remove font tags from text, use this handy method. Choose Window, HTML Styles from the menu bar. Select the text, and then from the palette flyout menu choose Clear Inline Styles and Clear Paragraph Styles. This should remove any font formatting previously applied.

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