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		Future enhancements Improvements in Microsoft Internet Explorer At present Microsoft Internet Explorer will download, decompress and privately install font objects even if the real font is installed on a users system. Future versions will check if the real version of the font is available before downloading the linked font object. Currently this behavior has to be simulated using VBScript or JScript. The W3C font embedding specification describes the way in which browsers should be able to combine font objects containing different subsets of the same font. This way you could link to a font object which contains the uppercase letters from a particular font and another font object containing lowercase letters. At present Internet Explorer will only use the first font object specified. Authoring tool support Although WEFT is a useful post production tool, some users will prefer to create font objects using traditional authoring tools. For this reason we have made the technology behind WEFT available to authoring tool developers. See our information about the OpenType embedding SDK. Apple Macintosh support Microsoft Internet Explorer for Apple Macintosh compatible machines will include support for font objects created using the Windows version of WEFT. At present we do not plan to convert WEFT to MacOS as the technology behind the tool is available to authoring tool developers, who will be free to build it into their Mac based tools. Because WEFT is a post-production tool designers who prefer to use Mac based authoring tools can create their pages on this platform and run WEFT on the Windows machines they use for testing. this page was last updated 23 November 1999 © 1999 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 2 | Future enhancements