Font Embeding using Microsoft WEFT

Weft Custom Fonts Embeding

[mihai2u]

Hello

I've downloaded this program:
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I've been trying for the last couple of hours to embed a custom font on a webpage. I've used this program for embeding only win fonts (it works on other browsers than IE & other platforms, too).

The only problem is I can't get it to use and embed other fonts then the Win has already installed.

Are there any "WORKING" programs to be used in font-embeding?

[j_h_maccann]

Using this program is futile. It works fine, and for partial fonts the size is favorable. But on IE7 every person viewing the page will always get a complex security warning about downloading fonts generally being safe, but not always, and perhaps yada yada yada ... the security warning is so awful that you'd never want to use WEFT. Great shame, but that's reality. IE7 will assure that no one ever uses WEFT.

[Robin_reala]

The best thing I've found for font embedding is a flash+javascript library called SIFR. The font is converted to a flash file which is locked to a server, then the Javascript finds headers (or whatever), reads the text, then changes hem into Flash objects with the same text.

It's designed for headers though - using it for all body text slows the page down a lot.

[Setek]

/me raises hand too

Best thing about sIFR-

No javascript: normal tag + normal styling (pre-replacement) displays.

No flash: normal tag + normal styling (pre-replacement) displays.

Degrades beautifully :)

[edited by: Setek at 7:24 am (utc) on July 26, 2006]