Yea, I know, I know... Embeded fonts = bad... It's not my idea, it's upper management's idea. I need to vreate some pages on the Intranet using GillSans Light - a commercial True Type font. We have license to install it on any pc, but since we have 1500+, I really don't want to go around installing it. Is there a way to embed this font within a web page? The Microsoft Weft tool will not allow me to do so.
If the font doesn't have the required permission I think you're snookered. Find a different version? It's common enough, I think it's on the CorelDraw CD (&/or Humanist 521 is allegedly the same font). Does the Mozilla-browsers tool work?
Acording to the properties of GILLSL__.TTF, the "embeddability for this font" is "Installable embedding allowed". However, when I try and use the Weft tool, it won't let me embed it.. Humanist 520 seems to be the same thing, but it's a commercial font.. Mozilla browsers tool?
I'm not sure of the current situation (ie, Firefox) but NS uses a different system (TrueDoc) to IE/Weft that's supposed to work in both browsers. http://www.ssi-developer.net/design/embed-font.shtml There doesn't seem to have been much progress in the field in the time since NS was a significant player. Yeah, now I look, MS only supply a subset of Gill Sans with Office (and not GS Light), same with Corel's Humanist range. Will Harris (not the Mr Haz ) advocates Flash for font embedding...
Ah screw it - too much work. I've found that Lucida Sans Unicode and Microsoft Sans Serif are very similar and are default Windows fonts so I'm using those
