RE: Fonts on Web Pages

From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 09:09:43 EST

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    Jill,

    I use Microsoft WEFT to embed fonts. I have had complaints that it does not
    run on non-Windows platforms but then Bitstream does not either. The
    problem with Bitstream is that it requires an active-x control to be
    installed and many people will not do that. WEFT is also free.

    Try http://www.microsoft.com/typography/default.mspx

    For example I use the Papyrus font for some of my Web pages. When I build
    the WEFT file I create a dummy page with all the characters that I might use
    so that I do not have to update the file when I make changes to the web
    pages. Then I embed in each page:

    <!-- /* $WEFT -- Created by: Carl W. Brown (webmaster@xnetinc.com) on
    2/17/2002 -- */

    @font-face {

    font-family: Papyrus;

    font-style: normal;

    font-weight: normal;

    src: url(PAPYRUS3.eot);

    }

    -->

    Carl

      -----Original Message-----
      From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
    Behalf Of Arcane Jill
      Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 5:12 AM
      To: unicode@unicode.org
      Subject: RE: Fonts on Web Pages

      Aaargh! No it doesn't!!!! PLEASE stop filling this thread with stuff which
    does not address the original question. I am interested in WEB PAGES.
    Nothing else. Not Acrobat Files. Not Word files. Nothing. JUST WEB PAGES. If
    you can't do it on a bog standard HTML page, it's not answering the
    question.

      Frustrated with all these unrelated side-issues, I decided to try Google
    instead. (Google often gives better answers about things than specialist
    lists!). I found a really good demo of exactly what I was after at
    "http://www.truedoc.com/webpages/intro/". Of course, I still don't know if
    this is state-of-the-art, or whether something better has turned up since
    then.

      If anyone has any further information about how to embed fonts in HTML
    files, please let me know.
      Thanks
      Jill

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Raymond Mercier [mailto:raymondM@compuserve.com]
        Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:51 PM
        To: Arcane Jill
        Cc: unicode@unicode.org
        Subject: Re: Fonts on Web Pages

        Of course Adobe was designed to do just the problem you defined,



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