Dynamic
Fonts refer to
a special category of fonts meant for
Internet only. These
fonts are dynamically
loaded on the fly along
with the Web Page in which they are embedded
and hence the name Dynamic Fonts. The
terms Internet Fonts and Web Fonts are
aliases for Dynamic Fonts. These fonts
are especially useful in the case of
web pages containing Indian language
contents because it is not always possible
that the Indian language fonts used to
develop these web pages will be installed
on the client's machine.
If the
Indian language web page is using fonts
which are not present in the client's
machine and the web page does not contain
any Dynamic Fonts then the page will
not be in a readable format and will
show meaningless characters.
Currently,
Dynamic Fonts are available for all Microsoft
Windows platforms (Win9x/NT/2000) and
Macintosh platforms on the client side.
The server side can be running any Web
Server on any Operating System.