Re: @font-face: please help

In message <NE%Wa.2519$jg.1522636 (AT) news1 (DOT) news.adelphia.net>, Clive
Everett <eoforheard (AT) mac (DOT) com> writes

Thank you so much. That was the problem, I had not set up WEFT properly and
so the only allowed root was localhost and not my IP address. I guess that
comes from trying to wing it through WEFT without reading the instructions
and I had assumed that as the font downloaded then it must be OK. Your page
worked perfectly so I copied your page and font and, as Microsoft intended,
it did not work locally so I knew my system was OK and it was, as you said,
a problem with how I had set up my font.

Yes, that seemed the most likely explanation as I was unable to run your
script locally -- not having the .eot files on the server was the only
other possibility.

Font embedding works well, although I've found that if used for
headings, a .gif graphics file equivalent tends to be smaller than an
embedded subset -- although if you change its background colour, you
don't have to reproduce the graphic.

It's a very useful tool to have in your armoury when circumstances
dictate.

I was intrigued by the poem; I
should have realized that there would be some Welsh accounts of the
Anglo-Saxon invasion.

I usually use it if I need a lot of body text for testing:
(a) It's in English, not Latin ;-)
(b) It's a 19th century translation, so out of copyright.

It's an interesting poem -- a collection of eulogies for the fallen
Celtic heroes from all over Britain at the battle of Catraeth -- fought
around AD600 in a vain attempt to hold back the English colonisation of
Britain in the centuries following the breakdown of Roman government.

It also has the first written reference to 'King' Arthur -- although the
oldest copies are from the middle ages and we don't know whether it got
added in by the monks who did the copying at that time ;-)

I'm sorry I could not put my test page on the Internet; I have been told my
router's port forwarding isn't working and I need to check it out.

Thanks again,

Clive


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Regards.
--
Jake