WEFT font conversion
One thing I realized is that all of this talk about web fonts is going on, all the while 70% of all browsers already support a form of embedded fonts, EOT.
But creating EOT fonts is a pain in the buttocks because you have to use the WEFT thing on a PC, and it's not as straight forward as you would think it should be.
Does anyone know of an *easier* solution? Is there any other way to create an EOT font at this time?
26.Apr.2009 2.23pm
http://www.fontembedding.com/eot/
26.Apr.2009 9.40pm
That's a pretty cool service. Too bad it doesn't appear that I can upload my own fonts for use. Something like this service might have possibly got the ball rolling on @font-face a long time ago.
30.Apr.2009 6.13am
You guys have probably seen this already. It was published last October:
http://jontangerine.com/log/2008/10/font-face-in-ie-making-web-fonts-work
I haven't yet read it carefully enough to know whether it applies to this conversation, but it's speaking the right language! Plus, if you aren't following Jon Tan's work, I highly recommend that you do.
:)
16.May.2009 9.36am
Does anyone know of an *easier* solution? Is there any other way to create an EOT font at this time?
I just added a second tool on our webfonts wiki page:
http://webfonts.info/wiki/index.php?title=Embedded_OpenType_format
16.May.2009 9.44am
As this tool doesn't support URL binding, be sure to only use it with freeware/open source fonts (license permitting)