Posted by Jake on 12/19/05 20:06

In message <vn1bq1hlqnete9li243orq503r96jerq4l@4ax.com>, Andy Dingley
<dingbat@codesmiths.com> writes
>On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:03:10 +0000, Jake <jake@gododdin.demon.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>>And, of course, you'll never let us in on these 'problems' you claim
>>exist or how the use of embedded fonts is 'impractical'... ;-)
>
>Doesn't work outside IE/Win. Bit of a biggy that one.
>
>Secondly there have been a few fonts I've really wanted to do this with
>(corporate branding issues), sometimes a font or glyph that was created
>specifically for that customer, and in every case WEFT has had problems
>in making that particular font work on any platform. I don't really
>need to embed Verdana, but that seems to be about the limits of current
>WEFT. It's a fine example of demoware - good for demonstrating what it
>ought to do, useless for actually doing it.
>
>I'd love to use font embedding - but I'm still waiting to see this
>develop to a usable and stable technology. Unless of course _you_ have a
>practical demo to show us....

http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/newg/weft.htm (IE, of course)


--
Jake (jake@gododdin.demon.co.uk -- just a 'spam trap' mail address)

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