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kolshire Unfortunately, there are two problems with font embedding: tradionally, in order to see a font in an application, the font has to be installed on the operating system, and the lack of browsers to support what are called 'dynamic fonts.' This support must be built into the browser, and there must also be a way to construct these dynamic fonts into special packages that the browser can download and execute, to display the fonts.
There was a time when both netscape and IE supported dynamic fonts, WEFT EOT for IE and TrueDoc for netscape. the difference was that support for EOT's was built into IE, but TrueDoc was always a plug-in that had to be installed. As you might guess from some of the other questions in this group, the technology is not perfect, and there are hurdles to wrapping up very sphisticated fonts into a useable package, while keeping the overall filesize to a minimum.
Nestscape no longer offers support for dynamic fonts, and firefox has never supported it. To my knowledge, IE is the only one that still does, thanks in part to the large group of users like you, who keep interest in the technology high.
GlyphGate is a server-based solution for the dynamic fonts problem. Essentially, it converts fonts into what are called 'glyphs.' You can essentially think of them as snapshots of the original font characters. GlyphGate translates the characters into a browser-readable format, and then sends it to the browser.
So, sad to say, that at this time, IE is still your only real outlet for displaying the font you want people to see.
