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Re: [westasianconlangs] Technical advice needed



On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:35:26 +0100 (CET) Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@hidden.email> writes:

> A possible, though limited, alternative is to use embedded fonts, so 
> that you 
> don't have to impose people to download fonts. Now, the problem is 
> that this 
> technology is not common. Only IE and Netscape support it, using two 
> different 
> formats, and of them only the format used by IE is still actively 
> supported by 
> its creator, Microsoft (and the tool to make those embedded fonts, 
> WEFT, is 
> free, which is rare enough from Microsoft to deserve a special note 
> ;)) ). The 
> technology of Bitstream, which is the one that Netscape supports, 
> can also be 
> used by IE if you get a simple plug-in, but unfortunately Bitstream 
> doesn't 
> have any free tools anymore to make embedded fonts and it doesn't 
> actively 
> support its embedded font format anymore. So the technology is 
> interesting and 
> really works, but is unfortunately reserved mostly to IE users :((( .

how about making PDF files with embedded fonts?

> Christophe.

Robert Wilson
http://kuvazokad.free.fr/
Yessessë Eru ontanë Menel ar Cemen.
Yessessë ëa Quetta ar Quetta né as Eru ar Eru né Quetta.


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