Development Embedding font in web page

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  1. Dad

    Dad You talkin to me?

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    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.
     
  2. cpemma

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    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?
     
  3. Dad

    Dad You talkin to me?

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    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?
     
  4. cpemma

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    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. :confused:
    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...
     
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  5. Dad

    Dad You talkin to me?

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    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 ;)
     

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