Microsoft Typography | ...on the Web | ...embedding | WEFT | WEFT overview
		WEFT overview To coincide with the launch of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4, we are releasing the Microsoft Web Embedding Fonts Tool. WEFT is a free utility that lets site designers create 'font objects' that are linked to their Web pages. The font objects created by WEFT differ from traditional font files in a number of ways. The font objects are compressed and are usually subsetted so that they only contain the characters used by a particular site or page. This means that font object file sizes are much smaller than those of ordinary TrueType fonts. When Internet Explorer 4 encounters a page that has a font object linked to it, the font object will be downloaded and cached like any other file. The font object is decompressed and the font it contains is privately installed. Only Internet Explorer has access to this privately installed font. The privately installed font can not be accessed by other applications. As a further precaution font objects will fail to work if they are linked to sites that don't have permission to use them. The embedding process The tool takes all the hard work out of creating font objects and linking them to your Web pages. This animation illustrates the different processes handled by Microsoft WEFT. Point WEFT at your site and it will analyze each page, building an accurate picture of their font usage. The tool will then create compressed font objects containing the required characters. Finally the tool adds code to your pages linking the font objects to them. The following pages describe all these stages, and explain ways in which you can customize the tool's behavior. this page was last updated 12 August 1997 © 1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Legal Notices. please e-mail comments to us via the e-mail address listed here.
	Microsoft Typography | ...on the Web | ...embedding | WEFT | WEFT overview