Types of Embedding fonts

[abhayatweb]

Hello friends,
I m a web designer.
I have a question relating to embedding the font. I know very well how to embed font into web page by using " Microsoft WEFT tool" by converting the font to .eot extension.
But on some web sites i m looking ASCII codes for displaying the font, just like :

(to view code copy n past this to "Frontpage")
मातीचे संरक्षण
माती निर्मिती
(to view code copy n past this to "Frontpage")

And when i copy n paste these codes in html editor softwares (frontpage, dreamwr.) these codes automatically get converted into related font e.g. hindi font. I want to know what is that, its looking simple font embedding system instead of using "Font embedding tool". As it has long procedure for font conversion.:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

[GUIR]

Hi!

I think you are noticing UNICODE (http://unicode.org/) fonts.

I ve also used WEFT for creating webpages in Sinhalese.



Greetings From Sri Lanka

[abhayatweb]

Thanx GUIR...
But i have got the complete solution of my problem, just after posting this thread, by searching in google.
thanx for taking interest.
bye.
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[rajv88]

Hello friends,
I m a web designer.
I have a question relating to embedding the font. I know very well how to embed font into web page by using " Microsoft WEFT tool" by converting the font to .eot extension.
But on some web sites i m looking ASCII codes for displaying the font, just like :

(to view code copy n past this to "Frontpage")
मातीचे संरक्षण
माती निर्मिती
(to view code copy n past this to "Frontpage")

And when i copy n paste these codes in html editor softwares (frontpage, dreamwr.) these codes automatically get converted into related font e.g. hindi font. I want to know what is that, its looking simple font embedding system instead of using "Font embedding tool". As it has long procedure for font conversion.:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

Hi

I am new to webdesign i need a good tutorial to embed hindi font. I tryied using WEFT but its not working. I donot know i did it correctly or not

[GUIR]

Hi!,

Visit http://www.higopi.com/ucedit/Hindi.html

BR

[rajv88]

Thank you GUIR
My problem is i have designed and uploaded
http://www.pallavatimes.com, but the client wants to view it without downloading the font. I donot know hindi i just copy and pasted the content and change the font.I donot know how to use the unicode converter

Is there any solutions for this

[rajv88]

Thank you
But the site http://www.pallavatimes.com is uploaded the clients want to see it without downloading the fonts.I donot know how to do that, I googled about WEFT but I donot know how to use it corrrectly(I tyred but its dosen't work).
The font name is APS-C-DV-Priyanka

[GUIR]

Hi,

When you use WEFT, you have to give the path of HTML file, which contains <font> with uncommon font name.

Then WEFT, will search for such font tags, locate usage of each charachter and will build *.eot file name. Also it will modify your HTML file.

Then you should upload your HTML file along with *.eot to the webserver.

Most probably that s all, but sometimes there may be fonts uncompatible with WEFT.

BR

[GUIR]

Hi!,

I checked your source code and it seems to me texts between the <SPAN> tags is the problem.

WEFT may have no way to detect font types between CSS & SPAN tags.

Alternatively you may modify your code with <font> tags and try with WEFT.

BR

[GUIR]

Since you have used CSS to define font type, I searched further how to combine WEFT with CSS as your problem is somewhat relavant for me also.

If may be possible to solve your problem while remaining with CSS/SPAN, go to http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/fdc-varia/font-embedding.htm

Further since WEFT is unable to locate <font> tags within your actual page, you may need to create *.eot files externally. That is by using a HTML text editor to create a single web page containing [all texts of your website] or [all characters of your font file] and do WEFT. Such complete WEFT file matches any web page.

Best Regards

[rajv88]

Thank you
I will try that.

[rajv88]

Thanks once again
I tryed a creating sample page with front face tag page using FrontPage its working.
But when i creat in dreamweaver it automatically creates the span class tag
I am not clear with the CSS type embedding.

Any way i'll search for it because i cannot recreat the website totaly

[felgall]

There is no such tag as <font>

All fonts should be defined in the stylesheet and not in the HTML.

Only some browsers understand WEFT. You need to list alternate fonts in the stylesheet for those browsers that don't understand it and hope that your visitors are not using browsers that discard all the font information when they see a WEFT command in the stylesheet.