[TYPO3-english] protect (and still use) font folder

Katja Lampela katja.lampela at lieska.net
Tue Apr 10 16:04:49 CEST 2012


Hi Mike,
Thank you very much for your informative answer. I used cufon method for this.
BTW for some reason your answers start a new thread.
Kindly,
Katja  

5.4.2012 12:21, Mike Meir kirjoitti:
> Hi Katya
>
> See http://www.microsoft.com/typography/WEFT.mspx
>
> This enables you to download the Microsoft WEFT software for creating
> .eot files from .ttf or .otf fonts files, provided their embedding
> permissions are set to allow embedding.
>
> .eot files are both compressed and encrypted (rather lightly). They may
> also be subsetted to contain only the glyphs used in the document
> (though that could be a problem with a CMS where you cannot predict the
> text), and they can be locked so that they only work for text from a
> given url when it is displayed within a browser. They are supported by
> (many) modern browsers.
>
> So, although they have to be downloaded, they can be protected enough to
> put off the casual pirate, and if they are downloaded through
> illegitimate routes they can still only be used to display the text from
> the web site they are locked to, within a browser.
>
> A more pertinent issue may well be that the fonts are not licensed for
> use from a web server, and/or the embedding bit may be set to prevent
> .eot files from being generated from them.  In that case the foundry may
> or may not be willing to produce .eot files licensed for embedding  on a
> particular web site. However, fonts in this class are probably also
> "optimised" for print use, and not hinted especially well for use on
> screen. So they probably won't look too good either, particularly at
> small sizes.
>
> Best Wishes
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 22:41:13 +0000 (UTC)
> From: bernd wilke<t3ng at pi-phi.tk>
> Subject: Re: [TYPO3-english] protect (and still use) font folder
> To: typo3-english at lists.typo3.org
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> Am Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:07:17 +0300 schrieb Katja Lampela:
>
>> Hi,
>> okay, thank you Bj?rn for this information.
>>
>> 4.4.2012 9:32, Bj?rn Pedersen kirjoitti:
>>> On 04.04.2012 07:55, Katja Lampela wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> In one of my client's site they use @font-face method and the font
>>>> files need to be protected from download.
>>>>
>>>> Using the simplest method, .htaccess+.htpasswd doesn't work, since
>>>> the fonts can't be used at all without logging in.
>>>>
>>>> How would you recommend I do this?
>>>> I have this link/method, but it seems a bit complicated:
>>>> http://subjectiveobject.com/2009/10/28/securing-font-face/
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> well, to use the font it needs to be downloaded to the client. There
>>> is no way around that. You may make it harder to save this font file
>>> to disk, but you can not prevent it fully. The only way would be to
>>> render everything as images, but that is no real solution as well.
>>>
>>> So you can make it harder as done in your link by going trough some
>>> php file loader, but thats all you can do.
>>>
>>> Bj?rn
>
> you may use "cufon".
> not as simple as @font-face, but possible:
> it renders all text on the fly into canvas-graphics with the desired
> font, the original font-file does not need to be accessible, so
> something like a dump is done (the font is renderd into javascript
> arrays which might enable others to use it the same way as you)
>
>
> bernd
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Katja Lampela
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