Is there any way to embed a font in a chm file that users can
see even if they don't have the font installed? I'm particularly
fond of TW Cent MT and have modified the TOC and style sheet to
incorporate it, but when I view the file on a tester's computer,
it's all Arial or some default font.
You can do this by using Microsoft's WEFT (Web Embedding
Fonts Tool) to embed the required fonts in your HTML source topics,
but, as I recall, the process is exceedingly tricky and
error-prone. WEFT is available from here:
> successfully embedded fonts in a .chm just by including
the font in baggage
Hmm, I can't get this to work. Have tried in the past, and
tried again this morning, and it's not working for me; the font
file is not being found when it is inside the .chm file. Can you
provide a little more information on the technique you used (maybe
the HTML source of a sample topic)? Are you embedding TrueType or
OpenType (.eot) fonts?
I used a true type font which I added to baggage and then
called in a STYLE="font-family:"NI7SEG" in a SPAN tag. This was a
special font to simulate our instrument's 7 segment display in a
simulator topic. In the HEAD section RoboHelp added a fontset line
which is a comment I assumed was just to help the WYSIWYG editor.
None of the other computers here has this font installed but the
.chm displays it correctly. This .chm is just used locally so maybe
I'm missing something - all of our computers are networked so maybe
Windows is finding it outside of the compiled .chm. I'll check this
out more.
Hmm, if I open the CHM on a non-networked computer it uses a
substitute font. And all these years I thought this was working :(.
I guess I never tested it well the first time.
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