Fonts and galleries

[parintele]

Recently i became interested in learning more about Web module inside LR.
Well, my first conclusion is, if you want to acieve a personal look of Galleries, style matching, better customization, etc...u need to "get dirty" and do some programming yourself. The presets, especially third party ones, are very nice and usefull but not allways meet our needs in some regards.

Until I reach the needed web related programming level (i have a programming background but unfortunatelly web related apps were not part of what i studied back in school so i have a lot to catch up), there is an issue i suppose it can be taken care off relativelly simple at this moment (or at least this si my current impression regading the subject...)

So, i would like to know if is possible to use different fonts inside gallery engines. which fonts can be used, i mean the fonts need to be "know" by any internet browser or the text is rasterized all over the gallery content like in case of "watermark" rasterized on exported jpegs???
As i presume not all text is rasterized and most of it is text + style i would like to find out how can i use different fonts/define different styles?

What should i re-define/change inside of gallery engine or generated gallery files , do i need to place a copy of font file inside gallery engine folder or generated gallery folder?

As an example, i use Lithos Pro fonts for watermarking my images inside PS, let's say i would like to use the same fonts for "Site title", "Collection title", etc...fileds....how that could be made?
You can use any LR Web engine/gallery preset model if such example is needed, i suppose the method is the same for all as the solution involves manual file editing and not option editing inside LR, allthough i saw some gallery presets/engines have some font related fields u can more or less optionally edit...

PS: if this subject is more suited for plugin section please apologize me for posting on general discussion.

 

[Sean McCormack]

First off, there are about 1' fonts that will show the same across the web. Other than that unless the person happens to have that exact font, then they will not see the page the way you intended. There is no way around this.

CSS2 allowed for embedded fonts, and the idea is coming around again, but, you cannot used copyrighted fonts even if it does become possible.

For changes to the watermark font, go to http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies and look at the Configuration Manager.

 

[parintele]

Ok, shawn, i got it... So, i am thinking 2f 2 possible ways to bring things somewhere in the middle...
For example use the same technique like building web pages, that is use some pre-made "button-like" images (would be possible to use such premade images in places where now is text in the menbtioned fields? I can imagine that would involve enough work and also web engine structure could make this even impossible...)
The second way i can think of is somehow embed/integrate the gallery itself into another webpage without bringing everything like the fields in question... I have read something on some forum, not shure this one....

Bottom line such thigs demand web programming skills and knowledge, so i need to go study, right? :lol:
Thanks for your input on this.

 

[Mark Sirota]

Using images of text instead of actual text can dramatically impact the performance of your web site.

Normally the text comes in as part of the page, but each image requires another conversation between the web browser and the web server. Depending on the performance of each and the network inbetween, and the number of images, this could be a pretty big performance hit. I would advise against it.

 

[parintele]

True, still i am talking about things like identity plate, site name, collection name and so on...that would be minimal size, can be compressed very good, keeping things under control in terms of impact on speed/performance.. still, it will provide an unitary and unique style of the website...
Offcourse text + style is better in all regards but as we can see is not allways possible and we need to find that fine ballance between look and functionality...

Talking about photography/galleries, an artistic field, more than that a visually thing, i consider overall look and harmony in this regard very important...

But, as you say, it need a lot of care.