10. When the "Fonts to Embed" box comes up, note you need to pay attention to two things:
    Subsetting (circled in red)
    and
    Embedding (circled in blue)      

11. Change the Subsetting to "7. No subsetting" by hitting the down arrow in the drop-down menu.  (This conflicts with the warning to NOT choose Subsetting  you may have seen in the Microsoft documentation but as I said, Persian has special needs so trust me on this one!)
    and
    Change Times New Roman (or some other fonts you don't care to embed) to NO by clicking on the
    name of the font then hitting "Don't embed". Then hit Next:

12. Now you come to the Create Font Objects box. Font objects  are files ending in .eot (make sure the extension remains lower case and not .EOT) and they contain a compressed version of your font which your website visitors will  access just as they access all your images and audio files, etc. They also contain info about which webpage(s) the .eot may be used with.  (A copyright consideration.)
    
    At the prompt for "Enter the location where the font objects will be created", enter that same folder on your computer where you store your webpage.   (Recall Step 6) Again, by hitting the button with 3 dots, you can browse around and look for it.
    
    In the next box down, at the prompt for  "Fonts may only be used from pages under these roots:" you need to type any mirror sites that the user may type in. The slash at the end of the URL is important. After hitting Edit, I've typed in http://students.washington.edu/irina/persianword/ and http://www.students.washington.edu/irina/persianword/
    
    You must add all mirror sites and take intranets and variant addresses into consideration.
    This is, apparently the place where most people get into problems.
    So, you might want to review the Microsoft documentation on this point. (Look for 'Allowed roots', also known as 'URL binding' about halfway down the page.)
    
    Finally, check the box "Show CSS@font-family declarations even if you don't have a CSS file. Hit Next.
    
    

13. Keep your eye down on the status bar while you're waiting for the eot files to be
    created. It tells you which fonts it's working on and you can watch the progress.  When the CSS styles box comes up,  go Control-c to copy the <style> info which you'll need to paste (Control-v) at the top of your CSS file. (Tip: Even if you don't have a CSS file, paste that into Notepad so you don't lose it!)   Hit Close.                 

14. When you come to the Publish Web Pages box,
    You might want to note the NewProjectRoot location (circled in red) because when you're done, that's where you'll find the new version of your webpage with the Weft info in the <style>.  Weft created the NewProjectRoot folder automatically and that's where it will automatically, by default send the newly modified webpage.  Also be warned it's going to put the font objects (the files ending in .eot) in the other folder as specified by you and discussed in steps 6 and 12.)
    
    Be sure the Do NOT upload to server box is checked or you will have some big headaches!         Hit Next. 

15. In the Finished box, hit Finish!
    
    In the next box, New Project, choose Save and save this project you've just completed. It will prompt you to name it. Name it anything you like,  Save and then close Weft.

16. Now you have to hunt for 2 things on your computer that you will upload manually as you normally upload files to your server:
    
    Your modifed html webpage file (look in documents\WebFontProjects\NewProjectRoot) for the project you just named and saved in step 15. 
    and
    The eot files. There is one eot per font. (In my case, I have to look in C:\Documents and Settings\irina\Desktop\MyWeftDemo).  Also in this folder is my original weft.htm file.  I've crossed it out in green in the picture below because it is not the modified one which is to be uploaded to your server.
    Note, sometimes WEFT goes ahead and makes an eot for fonts for which you had earlier specified "Do Not Embed" . Just delete the eot it has made for these fonts.
    
    Now modify your CSS file (if you have one) by pasting the <style> info to the top and pay attention
    to the exact address of your eot and its relative location to the directory containing your html file. If you're not sure, just type the entire url.
    It is usually easy to find the  eot files. However, for some reason, the modified webpage html file somehow often gets lost (or not made??) so, if this should happen,  rather than get frustrated, just copy and paste the style info manually into the <style> section of your original unmodified webpage. That's why I told you to copy the CSS info into Notepad above in step 13.
    
    Once you have uploaded the modified html file and modified CSS file (if  you have one) and your eot files (to the correct directories!!) on your server, you're done.
    
     

    If you'd like to contribute feedback on this demo, please email: irina@u.washington.edu and be sure to say which versions both of Windows & Internet Explorer you have and if you felt the download time was longer than usual. I will summarize and post the statistics and comments after I receive a few.

    Questions on WEFT should be asked at the WEFT users group: http://groups.msn.com/MicrosoftWEFTuserscommunity/general.msnw

     

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