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you’ll need Macromedia Flash. At the time of writing, Macromedia Flash 8 Basic costs $349

and Macromedia Flash 8 Professional costs $699. You can download a trial version from

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

after you register with Adobe; the download size is

about 100MB.

?

You need to have a license to distribute the fonts you’re using for the replacement.

You put sIFR to work in the next exercise, where you modify your product catalog to use a font that isn’t

supported by default by many web browsers. Look ahead at Figures 6-8 and 6-9 to see the difference

between the “before” and “after” versions of the catalog’s title.

Using sIFR

1.

Start by creating a subfolder in your site where you store the sIFR code. Create a folder named

sifr

under your

seophp

folder, so the complete path to it will be

/seophp/sifr/

.

2.

Download sIFR. Navigate to

http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/

and find the Down

-

load link at the bottom of the page. At the time of writing, the direct link to the latest zip package

is

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/files/sifr/2.0/sIFR2.0.2.zip

.

3.

Unzip the package into your

/seophp/sifr

folder. The contents of the folder should look the

same as Figure 6-4.

4.

You need to open the

sifr.fla

file located in your

sifr

folder with Macromedia Flash (not the

Flash Player!). If you don’t have it, you can find the trial download at

http://www.adobe.com/

downloads/,

or at a software catalog web site such as

http://www.softpedia.com

.

5.

If you installed Macromedia Flash correctly, it should open up

sifr.fla

(see Figure 6-5).

Using sIFR Properly

If you decide to use sIFR for your projects, we recommend that you also check its

documentation at

http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr/

, and its description at

http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/

, because they contain more tips and

hints that we could not include in the book. You can find a very useful walkthrough

at

http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr/How+to+use

. This quote is particularly

pertinent:

“sIFR is for headlines, pull quotes, and other small swaths of text. In other words,

it is for display type — type which accents the rest of the page. Body copy should remain

browser text. Additionally, we recommend not replacing over about 10 blocks of text per page.

A few more is fine, but once you get into the 50s or so, you’ll notice a processor and speed hit.”

In this exercise you learn how to embed a font into an

.swf

file. If you don’t have

Macromedia Flash, or you don’t want to install a trial version, you can use one of the

two Flash files that ship with sIFR. To do that, instead of following steps 4 through 9

of the exercise, simply rename

tradegothic.swf

or

vandenkeere.swf

from the

sirf

folder to

super_font.swf

.

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