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NAME

       mkeot - generate Embedded OpenType

SYNOPSIS

       mkeot font-file [ URL [ URL ... ] ] > EOT-file

DESCRIPTION

       The  mkeot command writes an EOT (Embedded OpenType) file on standard output that contains the given font
       file (OpenType or TrueType) and the given URLs.

       mkeot handles TrueType files, OpenType files with TrueType outlines, and OpenType files  with  Postscript
       outlines.  (Technically:  all  files  with  the "sfnt" format.) However, Microsoft's Web browser Internet
       Explorer (version 8) cannot handle Postscript outlines. To use EOT  files  with  that  browser,  OpenType
       files  with Postscript outlines must be converted to TrueType files first. Several prgrams are able to do
       that, including the free fontforge.

       The URLs that are added to the EOT file list the Web pages on which the EOT font may be used. They act as
       prefixes,  which  means that, e.g., a URL such as http://example.org/foo enables a font not only for that
       precise page, but also for http://example.org/foo2 or http://example.org/foo/bar or any other pages whose
       URL starts with the prefix.

       The  EOT specification allows EOT files without any URLs, but is not clear on the meaning of such a file.
       In practice, at least in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (version 8), an empty list of URLs means the  font
       applies to no Web page at all.

       EOT  font  are typically used for Web pages. To that end, a link (URL) to the EOT file must appear in the
       Web page's style sheet. A typical rule in CSS looks like this:

           @font-face {
             font-family: My Fancy Font;
             font-style: normal;
             font-weight: normal;
             src: url(http://example.org/fonts/fancy-roman.eot);
           }
           body {
             font-family: My Fancy Font, serif;
           }

       This downloads the EOT file from the given URL and declares it to be a font of normal  weight  and  roman
       style  with  the family name "My Fancy Font." That font can then be used in style rules, such as, in this
       example, to set the font of body text. See the "CSS Fonts Module level 3" for details on CSS.

       TrueType files typically have the extension .ttf, OpenType files typically have the  extension  .otf  and
       EOT files typically end in .eot.

SEE ALSO

       eotinfo(1), fontforge(1), WEFT (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm), EOT
       (http://www.w3.org/Submission/2008/01/) CSS Fonts Module level 3 (see http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/)

BUGS

       mkeot does not apply the optional MicroType Express compression.

       mkeot may fail with fonts that have non-ASCII characters in their names.

       mkeot cannot handle fonts that use (only) language tags instead of traditional  Microsoft/Apple  language
       numbers in their names table.  (Luckily, this feature of OpenType version 1.6 appears to be little used.)

       mkeot does not subset the font, unlike Microsoft's graphical WEFT tool. To make a EOT file with a reduced
       set of glyphs, you must first create a subsetted TrueType font with a font editor.