A checkmark in the table below indicates that you can view or print Web fonts (dynamic fonts) in the browsers listed below running on Windows, the Macintosh, and Unix. (Note that if the browser cannot display or print dynamic fonts, it uses default fonts instead.)

Operating System	Browser	View?	Print?
Windows
	Netscape 4.x
	Netscape 6
	Netscape 7
	Internet Explorer 4 *
	Internet Explorer 5 *
	Internet Explorer 5.5 *
	Internet Explorer 6 *
Macintosh
	Netscape 4.x
	Netscape 6
	Netscape 7
	Internet Explorer
	iCab
Unix
	Netscape 4.03

* To view the fonts in Internet Explorer for Windows requires a one-time download of the WebFont Player. The WebFont Player is 364 KB.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows does not fully support Bitstream WebFont technology. When you try to print or print preview pages using Web fonts from Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows, you do not get the dynamic font in the print preview or on printout. It appears that Internet Explorer dynamically rebuilds the page on the fly, stripping out the Web font tags. This prevents the dynamic fonts from printing.

To print dymanic fonts in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Windows, click the print icon on the toolbar. Do not choose File > Print.

Note that Internet Explorer for Macintosh and Netscape 6 and 7 for any operating system do not currently support dynamic fonts.

Unfortunately, we do not build the browsers, nor can we control how they handle fonts, so we can no longer support WebFont Maker retail products for every release of every browser. We would like to support Netscape Navigator 6 and 7 (and future versions), as well as future versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, but we cannot. Bitstream suggests you contact Microsoft and AOL and encourage them to support dynamic fonts in the new releases of their browsers.

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