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CherylS Let me break in this new discussion group with a bit of an introduction into making and using EOTs in email.
If you are thinking of embedding EOTs in email, note that that this will work for only a limited email audience:
1. This only works if you and the recipients have Outlook Express 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0. It does not work with Web-based email programs or Outlook.
2. The release of Windows Media Player 9 has added an additional challenge to embedding email, and you/recipients of your emails who have WMP9 installed will not be able to see the fonts properly without tweaking your Windows Registry to restore the 'Active Movie Control' that became disabled when WMP9 was installed. The link to this free program is below.
3. Your recipient must have scripting enabled in Internet Explorer.
However, if you are aware of these limitations and would like to proceed to use WEFT to make email EOTs and then embed them in Outlook Express email, here are your resources:
My (kinda old but still functional) tutorial on how to use Microsoft WEFT to make EOTs for email is at
The crux of making an E-mail EOT is to make sure to add the mirror site of MHTML. If you don't do this step, the EOT will not work for email.
So that you can view your stored EOTs with the free viewer that Bill Scott created, make sure to also add mirror sites of your C: drive, or whatever drive you have your EOTs stored on.
Once you make your email EOT, you can use it over and over, you don't have to re-create it every time you want to use the embedded font in an email.
The tutorial also gives you the code to use that actually embeds the email; also the small script that you must use; and explains how to set up your fonts correctly to show the EOT in the email. So I won't repeat that here.
Good luck
Cheryl
