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Corl DeLuna

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Jun 28, 2002, 9:20:28 PM6/28/02
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Hi, I just downloaded Microsoft's WEFT 3 (yet another free tool from MS :-),
for creating embedded fonts for my help files.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm?fname=%2
0&fsize=

While I pour over the documentation, I was wondering if you've had
experience using WEFT, and if there are any tricks to creating embedded
fonts especially for CHMs?

Thanks,

Corl


Pete Lees

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Jun 29, 2002, 1:47:08 PM6/29/02
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Corl,

> While I pour over the documentation, I was wondering if you've had
> experience using WEFT, and if there are any tricks to creating embedded
> fonts especially for CHMs?

This subject came up a few months ago on the group. Here's an extract from
Ricardo's post in which he describes how to get the embedded fonts to work
in a .chm:

> I got the solution from Mr. Sven-Ola Tuecke of Germany.
>
> The trick is, as you create the eot file in Weft, to add "mk:@MSITStore:"
> to the question:
>
> "Font objects may only be used from this root:"
>
>So you would have something like this:
>
> file://C:\MyProject\;mk:@MSITStore:
>
> Then you add the eot files to your project file (hhp) and it works all
> right.

You can view the complete thread by going to http://groups.google.com/ and
searching for "How to embed fonts (eot) in a chm?".

Pete


Corl DeLuna

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Jul 1, 2002, 6:21:49 PM7/1/02
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Thanks for the lead Pete. I added file://C:\Test\;mk:@MSITStore: under the
"Font objects may only be used from this root:" But, each time I open the
CHM compiled with menu.HTML, menu.CSS and DAKOTA1.eot, it automatically
opens the menu.CSS file in FrontPage, and IE displays "Action canceled" in
the CHM Window

I thought it might be a conflict with the external style sheet and the
internal style settings WEFT embedded into the Html, but I get the same
error when I cut and paste the CSS settings that WEFT embeds in the HTML and
merge it with the external CSS file settings:

/* $WEFT -- Created by: Corl DeLuna (corld...@worldnet.att.net) on
7/1/2002 --*/
DIV.item { font-weight: normal;
font-size: 11pt;
text-transform: uppercase;
margin-top: 8pt;
margin-bottom: 1pt;
font-family: Dakota;
src: url(DAKOTA1.eot);
color: black; }

Any insight you can offer will be greatly appreciated.

Corl


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Pete Lees

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Jul 2, 2002, 8:39:10 AM7/2/02
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Corl,

> But, each time I open the CHM compiled with menu.HTML, menu.CSS and
> DAKOTA1.eot, it automatically opens the menu.CSS file in FrontPage, and IE
> displays "Action canceled" in the CHM Window

I think this may have something to do with the options you've chosen when
creating the .eot files with Weft, as the program has failed to write an
"@font-face" style property into the <head> section of the HTML file. This
is the property that specifies the font to embed in the file.

I'll contact you off-list with a sample .chm and recommendations on the
options to choose in Weft.

Pete


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