WEFT III in IE-great, not in Netscape-SDK ??

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Posted by: des
         

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Posted by: des
         

Sorry!  The post should have read:

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The question was asked in a previous post:

"Also, is there any chance in the future that Netscape will cater for eot fonts?"

The answer from Si was :

"Netscape - We have an SDK that any authoring tool or Web client developer can license free of charge."
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My question is:  What does that mean?  Can you explain further?  Is there NO way to use WEFT III successfully with Netscape? 

Thanks in advance!

L.

 

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Posted by: Si
         
I meant that all Netscape/AOL would need to do is license our free Embedding SDK (Embedding Software Development Kit) and plug it into Navigator.

If you wanted to add support to Navigator yourself you would need to license the SDK and create some kind of plug-in.

As you would guess neither of these tasks are trivial.

Si

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Posted by: rdaneel
         

so what you're saying is, that NS can include .eot support in the NS browser free of charge but that they are not doing this?

R

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Posted by: Si
         
Although our embedding SDK is free, the cost of implementing and supporting it in a complex application like Navigator shouldn't be underestimated.

Si

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Posted by: towerofpower
         

One can easily support both browsers (MSIE and NS) by generating EOT files for Explorer and PFR files for Navigator, and calling-up BOTH in the HTML code by means of CSS. I'm doing that right-now, and it works great.

The tool for the Netscape fonts (PFR) isn't free though. One can download it for evaluation from the Bitstream web site.

BTW: someone posted that NS 6 Beta wouldn't support download fonts. I downloaded that beta yesterday, and it turned out that it _does_ work with such fonts. One has has to use the PFR fonts for that browser.

There are instructions on how to use both types of fonts at http://www.webmonkey.com

Search for "font-embedding" and "Cascading Style Sheets". It ain't hard to learn.

Oliver

 

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Posted by: Si
         

The first beta didn't have support for PFR's, and postings to the Type.Design and mozilla lists indicated that it wouldn't be built into the product. As I recall a Bitstream employee indicated that they were working on a plug-in for NS6.

It would be good to have links to documentation indicating that support has been added.

Si

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Posted by: Si
         

RE: Netscape 6 - I just downloaded and installed the full package from www.netscape.com - doesn't seem to support PFR's, see the screen capture I just grabbed and attached.

Also couldn't find a reference to dynamic fonts in the NS6 release notes.

Here's the Mozilla.org bug - http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9294 which indicates no TrueDoc for Mozilla

Comments attributed to Bitstream's Bob Thomas, (Director of Product Management) posted to the Type.Design list

The latest versions of Netscape Navigator (4.72?) for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix all support the PFR format. Bitstream WebFont (formerly called TrueDoc, which allows a browser to display dynamic fonts) is built into Netscape Navigator, 4.03 and higher. We are working on a plug-in for Netscape 6. We tried to get Netscape to support it directly, but they wanted to keep Mozilla as small as possible.

 If anyone has heard anything else please let us know.

Cheers, Si

 

 

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