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Font Embedding
Name: Acej Date: March 31, 2006 at 03:34:54 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: 512Mb
Comment:
Hi,
I'm trying to embed a font into pages in a website, and so far have used Microsoft's WEFT to embed successfully for viewing in IE. My problem is trying to find a tool to allow me to embed the font for viewing in Netscape Navigator/ Firefox/ Opera, etc.
I understand from doing some research that Bitstream's TrueDoc software, for converting TrueType Fonts to .pfr files for viewing in Netscape, has been discontinued and is no-longer available.
Does anyone know of any other software that would allow the font to be embedded, or will I just need to add a few alternative fonts to my code for viewing with other browsers?
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