[farsiweb] weft
Thanks to Arash and Omid for your responses. I would love to get this working... dependent, not because it is too complicated, but because the font doesn't allow embeding. I also think so and although Weft tells you whether embedding is permissible for each font on your webpage, it doesn't state if the vendor of the font has disabled embedding intentionally or just inadvertantly caused it. I see that some fonts simply don't embed at all, while others (Nazanin) embed but end up looking different than normal while others (Koodak) do work ok. In any case, I have written to the developer and I'll post any info I get in case others are interested. Besides Weft, I've also discovered another commercial product which is advertised as being better than Weft: http://fairy.em2-solutions.com/main.html But is the WEFT way really necessary today? Or is it because of the different shapes that you need to use WEFT? Well, the target users of my webpage will be people who don't have any Persian fonts on their computer and can not/will not install one so they will end up seeing my page in (some version of)Times New Roman. Besides the not-as-nice appearance of TimesNR, the character heh + yeh seems to come out as ta marbuta. In case anyone doesn't know, there is also a way to embed fonts in Word docs (Word2002 and some earlier versions): Tools--options--save--embed true type fonts. This is a convenient way to check if fonts are embeddable without having to use Weft which takes a little more time/trouble. ___ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
Re: [farsiweb] weft
I don't have real experience with this issue, but as an ex user of weft for Tamil fonts, I know that its usage seems to be font dependent, not because it is too complicated, but because the font doesn't allow embeding. How to go around this...I don't know. But is the WEFT way really necessary today? Or is it because of the different shapes that you need to use WEFT? Arash On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 03:56:36 AM, Omid Alamdar Milani wrote: We (me and roozbeh) tried to use this program on sina fonts, but it didn't work, it seems that the problem is the font being too complicated to work with weft, but now you say it may be disabled in the font. If you could found out anything about the problem (what this beaing too complicated mean, or if the feature is disabled in the font how could we enable it) please inform us, to make the needed changes. --- C Bobroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have any of you managed to use WEFT with Persian fonts? This seems like a good solution [i.e. concealing!} the final yeh with dots the heh + yeh looking like ta marbuta problems which you get with the core fonts (like Tahoma, Times New Roman, etc.) WEFT 3 is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm?fname=%20fsize= I was able to at least get it working with the KoodakBold font (one of the few fonts without embedding disabled but it only seems to work in certain conditions. If anyone else has tried this, please share your experiences! Thanks, Connie ___ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
Re: [farsiweb] weft
We (me and roozbeh) tried to use this program on sina fonts, but it didn't work, it seems that the problem is the font being too complicated to work with weft, but now you say it may be disabled in the font. If you could found out anything about the problem (what this beaing too complicated mean, or if the feature is disabled in the font how could we enable it) please inform us, to make the needed changes. --- C Bobroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have any of you managed to use WEFT with Persian fonts? This seems like a good solution [i.e. concealing!} the final yeh with dots the heh + yeh looking like ta marbuta problems which you get with the core fonts (like Tahoma, Times New Roman, etc.) WEFT 3 is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm?fname=%20fsize= I was able to at least get it working with the KoodakBold font (one of the few fonts without embedding disabled but it only seems to work in certain conditions. If anyone else has tried this, please share your experiences! Thanks, Connie ___ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ___ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
