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ImDocHolliday The problem is that WEFT is searching your entire website for the fonts. Bad idea. I keep telling everyone to create ONE webpage with all the characters and every font you will use. Then you point WEFT to that one page. This way, it is only looking at ONE page and the process goes rather quickly. Use the following in a single webpage file:
Embedded Fonts Sheet
A BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890`~!@#$%^&*()_-[{}]|;:";'’,<>./?®©
A BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890`~!@#$%^&*()_-[{}]|;:";'’,<>./?®©
You'll notice that every character is represended. I even included the registered and copyright characters, in case you need to use them. Just create a folder on your website called "fonts" and put a webpage in it called "fontembed.htm" (or html, if you prefer). Open the file in Notepad and paste in what I've included above. Change the background color and text color to match what your web site will look like. You can also copy and paste the character sets for each font face you use in your website. Above is the one for Verdana. I know that "everyone has Verdana" on their system. Well, maybe they don't. Make a WEFT file for EACH font face you use. If the case above, Verdana also has a separate italic font file. If the font you use does also, make sure to include it just like that shown above. Leave the between the A and B; if you delete it, you'll get little boxes all over your pages wherever there's a hard space code.
After you create the "fontembed.htm" file, view it in IE. Make sure all of the characters show for a particular font. If not, remove them because there's no need to include what won't get created. Generally, everything after the zero is questionable. Some font faces just don't include all of this. When you're satisfied that everything is good, open WEFT and point it to the "fontembed.htm" file in your website.
This all sounds difficult, but if you think about it, it's quite easy. (I know that "easy to do is easy to say" but in reality, this is.) All of your WEFT EOT files get created with every possible character you will use. The files will be a bit larger than normal because of this, but it's worth it; you'll never have to recreate the EOT files.
