By divrom on

Are there any modules or template tricks to more easily apply the kind of thing talked about in the ALA piece on Dynamic Text Replacement?

I'd like to be able to upload my own fonts to my server and then have Block titles displayed in that font. As the site will have many users and loads of blocks, it's not realistic to create a graphic for each block title.

Has anyone come up with a solution for this?

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mfer commented

sIFR does that with flash. If the browser doesn't have flash or javascript then it degrades to the default font you set for it in the css. For example, this is a technique that has been used on espn.com

http://drupal.org/project/sifr

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Caerydd commented

There is the signwriter module that does something similar, I don't know whether it can be applied to page titles or not though.

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divrom commented

Thanks, folks. They both look like they would do the trick. That's what I love about Drupal. I was thoroughly convinced that there would be a solution out there - and there's two! :-)

Do either of you have any experience with how gracefully they degrade? And, which one adds the most to server load, load-times, etc. (I'm guessing Sifr)?

Cheers.

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mfer commented

I have never used signwriter. The big difference is that sIFR uses flash and signwriter uses images. I would really like to know the performance difference.

sIFR can use any font you have in flash. Any font at all. If you can install the font on your computer you can get it into flash and on your site. sIFR degrades pretty well. If there browser doesn't have javascript or flash the browser displays the field in the regular styling.