EOT works in Firefox perfectly....NOT in IE

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Posted by: DeshiPurush
         
Dear All:
 
Happy New Year 2005.
I'm very new in this forum. I have the following problem:
 
One of our partners is developing a site www.amardesh.net using eot/bengali/hacked-encoded font combinations......
This works fine with Mozill Firefox 1.0 but shows spaces between some letters in IE6. Is Firefox smarter than IE (!)? But they developed and hosted it in  Windows platform and the main focus was to IE.
Now, it will be great if you help to explore the problem and to solve it out.
For making eot, they used WEFT 5.3.2.
If you need any more info, pls. ask here....
Again, we will be grateful for your help...
 
Thanx.
 
- Jimmy (Deshipurush)

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Posted by: Majid
         

So far as Mozilla's Firefox being able to use WEFT fonts is concerned, it does not seem to be possible. The fonts must be in the system for Firfox to use them.

 

I have checked this again and again and my view is that EOT FONTS DO NOT WORK IN ANY BROWSER EXCEPT IE.

 

And so far as handling of spaces for this particular script/language is concerned, it is possible that Firefox may be smarter than IE, but Firefox 1.0 does not process EOT fonts and for a webpage to appear as intended the fonts have to be in the system.

 

Abdul-Majid Bhurgri

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Posted by: DeshiPurush
         
Hi Majid.

Thanx for ur opinion...........Let me re-check this point.......


Regards,

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Posted by: DeshiPurush
         
Hi... Majid:

You are absolutely right.
Then What would be the solution of our problem for IE and Firefox?

Regards

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Posted by: -_Manu-_1
         

Hi,

    your site www.amardesh.net needs to have a x-user defined encoding tag to work properly, as the font is a Hack Encoded Bengali font which needs to have user defined Encoding tags on pages to let browser show content without errors.

 

Firefox doesn't support EOT's. EOT should work fine on I.E, MSN Explorer.

 

Extra Spacing between characters has been a problem with sites using such fonts. there's no 100% accurate solution for it. However other browsers may show up content without this error and use the locally installed font to display your content.

 

Try including the encoding tag and see if it works fine for you.

 

See ya,

prabudh

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Posted by: joellowworon
         
The fact that firefox supports the EOT file is rather fishy... since only IE was designed to understand EOTs. Then again, Mozilla may have included support (?) for EOTs, since Firefox was meant to replace Mozilla Suite, and it was also meant to repace IE (thus maybe some aspects of IE are supported)

I'm not sure about this, so don't scream at me if I got it wrong

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Posted by: mjan
         

Here is the deal:

 

FireFox/Mozilla/Safari does not suppot EOT's created by WEFT.

 

IE provides partial suppport on Windows and none on Mac or Unix. Non-Latin languages are only supported to the extent that the used PC suppport that language too. Arabic and Brahmi based languages are typically not supported. Hindi and Saudi work well on most versions of Windows, other language require more recent versions of Windows/Office or are not supported yet.

 

Please note that I write "EOTs created by *WEFT*". Firefox/Mozilla, Safari and IE do support web fonts on Windows, Mac and Unix, with other kinds of EOTs.

 

Regards,

- Michael

 

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Posted by: gferreira
         
Michael wrote:

> Please note that I write "EOTs created by *WEFT*".
>Firefox/Mozilla, Safari and IE do support web fonts on
>Windows, Mac and Unix, with other kinds of EOTs.

michael,

what do you mean by "other kinds of .eots"?

how is it possible to generate .eots supported by firefox?

any information on this subject would be greatly appreciated...

regards,
- gustavo.

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Posted by: mjan
         

The WebFont/TrueDoc font format from Bitstream is supported in Netscape 4.x. This is probably of little importace though.

 

GlyphGate support two font formats -- EOT and XCGF. These formats are supported either natively or through a plugin in IE, Mozilla/Firefox, and Safari on Mac, Unix and Windows.

 

 

Regards,

- Michael

 

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Posted by: gferreira
         
michael,

thank you very much for this information.

best,
- gustavo.

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Posted by: Omi Azad
         
Hello Deshipurush,
How come ForeFox work with WEFT. WEFT is MS technology and FireFox cannot make any integration with WEFT. There are lots of patent issues. So if you are seeing AmarDesh’s page with your FireFox, you must have that hacked font installed in your computer.

Regards
--
Omi Azad
Chief Software Architect
Altruists International
http://www.altruists.org

Bangla Computing and Localization Projects:
Ankur Bangla: http://www.ankurbangla.org
Ekushey: http://www.ekushey.org

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Posted by: SajedC
         
Coincidently there's a similar thread on BhashaIndia:

http://bhashaindia.com/ForumV2/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=3&MessageID;=638

Is it the same person spreading the same myth?  

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Posted by: bandwidthjunkie
         
Just to confirm that font embedding does not work in Firefox (sadly), this is what your site looks like in my FF browser. Back to the drawing board...

http://img118.exs.cx/img118/5293/notinthefox7wu.jpg

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Posted by: Yousaf2k
         
Firefox 2.0 supports EOT via PDMS WEFT plugin.
check this website for demo.
http://www.dinnews.tv/dinnews/urdu/headline-news-1101.aspx

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