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Dec 05.2006

I am led to believe that you can only see the various fonts if they are installed on your computer.

How do the font suppliers show their fonts on webpages? are they embedded?

I have looked at the WEFT instructions but couldn’t understand any of it.

Does anyone have a simple persons guide to embedding fonts.?

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@kiwibritDec 05.2006 — AFIK it can't be done - unless you supply the font - and users choose to install it on their computers.

You could supply the text as an image. But even if you use full alt text, you will be restricted in your site layout (particularly for fluid sites) and create usability issues for some. I am not sure how search engines would handle your site, either.
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@coppocksDec 05.2006 — The web embedded font tool allows one to take a font, and create a font object, generally with only the necessary characters to be used, in a compressed format. Thus making the font object supposedly smaller in file size than the original font. If a non MS browser hits the page, then a default font is shown that they do have on their system. Otherwise, then yes, you could display any "legal" font you wanted without issue in MS Browsers. Additionally, the font object WEFT created could not be used on any site but the domain that it was created for and could not be used in the manner of a traditional font on a PC/Mac such as TrueType or PostScript fonts.

Aside from the fact that this tool has not been updated in over 3 years, it is also only a Microsoft feature. Although, I dunno whether newer browsers such as Firefox support such, but I doubt it. At one point, the Netscape browser had it's own enbedded font type available, via a third party Font distributor (I dont remember now who), but that too was a pain in the wazoo to use and implement.

When I want to display a certain off-the-wall font style, either of a font that I have created to sell, or just to add flair to a web page, the tried and true gif or jpg file is what most use today. As a matter of fact, I couldn't tell you the last time I saw a WEF site in use. And you'd know it. The pages are slower to load, and often jittery. The font object has to load just like any other web page file, and then the browser has to substitute text for the font object.

I do not see a future for it. It was new... a fad... and now, pretty much forgotten. (IMHO) I've not used that since 2001 or 2002. So I can't attest to it's viability today with IE7... or any browser for that matter.
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@kiwibritDec 05.2006 — Just spotted [url=http://alistapart.com/articles/dynatext]this method[/url] using javascript and php.
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@glenvernauthorDec 06.2006 — Thanx guys - Looks like WEFT is a no no, to complicated...

So it's back to the drawing board (literally)...

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