Scalable Inman Flash Replacement is an open-source JavaScript and Flash technology which replaces HTML text elements with Flash equivalents.
Questions tagged [sifr]
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How to ensure fonts look the same in all browsers/platforms (Cufon? Images? sIFR) for PDF rendering
I've spent eons diving into @font-face issues for RTL languages, font-rendering on different browsers, PDF support, and so on.
My objective is to have CSS-compatible Arabic (a RTL language) text on an HTML document, which , when rendered into a PDF,…

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Where to specify line height for sIFR
I have not had any luck changing the line height for sIFR. I have tried changing the sIFR css and config file as well as my general style sheet. Is there a special trick?
GENERAL CSS
h1 {
font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;
font-size: 24px;
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Darren
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Changing a sIFR "Current Item" Color without Page Reload
Greetings!
I found a post similar to my problem that was nicely answered, but it changed the color of ALL
instances with a javascript function. I am trying to change the color of a single sIFR'd nav item in a list to have a different color,…

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How do I use multiple selectors with sIFR?
I have set up sIFR on a site and it is working correctly. However I need to be able to apply multiple styles based on class.
The functioning code is:
sIFR.replace(myriadpro, {
selector: 'h2',
css: '.sIFR-root { font-size: 20px; color:…
Forrest Anderson
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Sifr 3 a:hover not active outside text
I have an unordered list with links. The links have display:block; in the css so the hover will also have effect in the padding surrounding the links. I replace the list-items with sIFR 3. In the sifr-config.js I specify a hover color for the text…
joris
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sIFR can't render capital L on Crayon font -- any ideas?
i am experiencing a very strange problem with sIFR. though i have it working across a huge number of different fonts, i can not figure out why it will not render a capital "L" in the TrueType font Crayon. see this for a live example of the problem:…
justin
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Sifr 3 Links Problem
I am currently coding a site that is using an extensive amount of sifr'ed links. The appearance of the sifr'ed text is fine, however the links only seem to work in Safari. I have seen that there are several other people having trouble with firefox…

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sIFR removes all content on page?
I have a really weird error. When I use sIFR to replace a single h1 element, everything else on the page disappears. It's really odd. I don't get any javascript errors.
If I edit out the sIFR.activate function in he sifr-config, everything is…
Rune
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dectect sifr is active on page
I want to be able to check if sIFR has activated after the page has loaded so that I can then make other adjustments - sort of like setting up () alternate behaviours
Since sIFR is already checking for the existence of flash, is there an easy…
Matt
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sIFR slector for li:hover effect
I have a menu
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:hover with a nested sIFR element
I've got the following html:
1Consectetur adipiscing elit risus.
The number within the span is replaced by sIFR, but I'd like it to change color on a:hover. In CSS it would work like…

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Rockwell / sIFR 3 - with special characters (£, etc.)
Is there anywhere I can download a SWF fo sIFR 3 of the Rockwell font (like the one that comes with sIFR 3), but with a bunch of special characters embedded too? Specifically the pound sign (£), but more would be great :)
I don't have access to…

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sifr 3 - at my wits' end trying to get the text blocks not to wrap
Looking forward to any help/comments on any aspect of this, but the main question is about sIFR text wrapping, and how to disallow it. This was supposed to be a simple html-izing job (ha ha ha)
Check out here
So I've housed the nav and the content…
kippa
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sIFR + (other method using image doens't work either)
I tried many times and searched this board, but I can't do a simple thing like this:
http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs139&d=09201&f=menu676.gif
I want to render a menu like this:
item 1 | item 2 | item 3 | .... etc...
"item 1" AND pipe character "|" = sIFR…
r0n
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sIFR mouse wheel scrolling freeze in Firefox
I have started using sIFR for a site at work, everything works very well except one thing.
When I'm scrolling down the webpage with the mouse wheel, it stops scrolling when the pointer is on the flash object. It seems like the flash object is…
Maxime Perron Caissy