An important needed feature is an automatic TTF preloader - which allows you to upload your own external TTF file and run it - without doing any changes to the Flash code.

There are TTF files embedders around - google for "sIFR TTF" and you will find some.

DynaText (by 'A List Apart') is a competing search-engine friendly technology for title, which does it!. DynaText doesn't use Flash at all: It uses PHP's GD library to automatically generate images from any TrueType (TTF) font.

Needed drupal support: 1. Allow to upload the TTF file from the 'settings' page.
2. Automatic TTF preloader (but that should be solved on the sIFR level).

Enjoy,

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sun
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Looks quite interesting but the downside of DynaText seems to be - caching. Once sIFR is loaded it stays in the user's browser cache until he/she leaves the site. Im comparison to DynaText any dynamically created headline will be re-built on each view.

Do you have another script recommendation that might support caching?

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sun
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Status: Active » Postponed

During a deeper look on DynaText I've found out that it indeed implements caching.
Implementing DynaText as an alternative of sIFR sounds really interesting now.
But if we will go this way, we also would have to integrate Textimage as another option and change the whole module to a more generic name à la "(Beautiful) Fonts".

However, this will need some time as current sIFR module needs to be enhanced to a plugin system.

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guardian commented

subscribing, any updates on this ?

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sun
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Not yet. However, I have refactored DynaText into a completely new text replacement solution and I am currently working on the plugin system for sIFR module, which in turn makes sIFR a generic text replacement module, which will be discussed in that issue.

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sun
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Project: sIFR » Dynamic Rendering
Version: master » 5.x-1.x-dev
Status: Postponed » Active
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Title: Auto TTF Font preloader » Add DynaText plugin
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sun
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Marking as duplicate of #261799: Add jITR/DynaText plugin