Re: Font embedding

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, James Campbell wrote:

>
> Now that I'm back for a while, it's good to see so many new names here on
> the list along with those I know already. I was wondering whether anyone
> else has used M*cr*s*ft's Font Embedding Tool on their web pages, to enable
> the display of conscripts (or conlang-required diacriticals, like g-caron).
> At first glance it seems to be a possibly useful technology, but it may only
> work with ie4/5 and not Netscape, if I recall correctly. Just wondered if
> anyone's tried it.
>
According to Niederst (1999:453-457) Bitstreams Truedoc works only with
Netscape and you can only do it with a commercial program. Microsofts OpenType
works only with Internet Explorer and can be handled with a 'free' Microsoft
program, WEFT.

I've succeeded in getting Netscape to display Unicode using the Cyberbit
font, though - I think that that would be a better route. Free unicode fonts
are starting to become available, too, and if I've read the readme's with
the source of Pine correctly, from next year on all mail readers have to
be unicode compliant or they should be considered broken. There's light
at the horizon!

( Niederst, Jennifer. 1999. Web Design in an Nutshell. O'Reilly and Associates,
Sebastopol )

Boudewijn Rempt  | www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt