Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 12/20/05 18:27

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Andy Dingley wrote:

> 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.

However, WinIE is the browser which is most in need of being
helped-out by this technology, so the arguments do even out to some
extent.

> 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 have to say that my only dealings with WEFT3 were to compensate for
WinMSIE's execrable support for unusual character repertoires. To
that extent, they were successful, and I was hoping to write some web
pages on the successful results. But I haven't had time yet.
Meantime, interested readers could consult the discussion which
includes this posting

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design/msg/2f48e144a18a19ea

Hope that's vaguely useful. I think the best test pages right now are
the ones cited by the other main participant in that thread, Gérard
Talbot.

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