The EOT file appears to be broken

[matiaskorhonen]

The Iconic EOT file appears to be broken on all IEs (as far as I can tell):

It doesn't look like it's a CSS syntax issue as I used the "bulletproof" Fontspring @Font-Face Syntax which has so far worked for every other webfont that I've used.

I prepared a quick demo file to act as a test case: https://github.com/k33l0r/iconic_test_page (works in IE9 due to IE9's TTF/OTF support, broken in IE8 and below).

[somerandomdude]

Thanks - I'll look into it this weekend.

[puzrin]

There can be 2 problems:

• included HTML demo will not work in IE 6/7, because it uses :before to add glyphs
• fontforge can lack of EOT support & write PS1 instead. This header doesn't seems to be EOT:

\80
l\00\00%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: IconicFill 001.000
%%Title: IconicFill
%Version: 001.000
%%CreationDate: Thu Dec 29 18:55:15 2011
%%Creator: PJ Onori,,,
%Copyright: Icons by PJ Onori, font creation script by Yann
% Generated by FontForge 20110222 (http://fontforge.sf.net/)
%%EndComments

10 dict begin
/FontType 1 def
/FontMatrix [0.001 0 0 0.001 0 0 ]readonly def
/FontName /IconicFill def
/FontBBox {15 -201 1016 801 }readonly def
/PaintType 0 def
/FontInfo 10 dict dup begin
 /version (001.000) readonly def
 /Notice (Icons by PJ Onori, font creation script by Yann) readonly def
 /FullName (Untitled1) readonly def
 /FamilyName (Untitled1) readonly def
 /Weight (Medium) readonly def
 /FSType 0 def
 /ItalicAngle 0 def
 /isFixedPitch false def
 /UnderlinePosition -100 def
 /UnderlineThickness 50 def
end readonly def
/Encoding StandardEncoding def
currentdict end
currentfile eexec

Here is convertor http://code.google.com/p/ttf2eot/

[matiaskorhonen]

It's not a CSS/HTML issue; I just recreated the EOT files with ttf2eot and those work just fine (in IE8).

I committed the new files to my test repo: k33l0r/iconic_test_page@d044024ecb0b7cdc4d0a626f3e209ddabcc727f3

(though you're right that the test file wouldn't work in IE6/7...)

[somerandomdude]

I'm a little conflicted here. I don't want to bloat the HTML/CSS to support outdated browsers. However, I would at least like to provide a working EOT file. I may just replace the EOT and leave it as is. The other option could be to create a separate HTML/CSS file for IE8 and below. Thoughts?

[puzrin]

Hm... who cares about HTML/CSS internals, if those are only for testing? Anyway, i'll be fine with any solution, that allow to check, that EOT is really working.

[matiaskorhonen]

I really don't care if the test page works in IE6/7 as long as the EOT file does (and IE8 does support the :before pseudo element).

[somerandomdude]

Sorry guys, I missed the "deadline" for this. :) I'm planning on taking care of this tomorrow.

[somerandomdude]

OK, I'm WAY late on this issue, but I've committed new EOT files. Unfortunately I don't have a PC to test on - would anyone be willing to give it a shot?

[francocatena]

Fill and Stroke now works great to me in Explorer 7 and 8.

[somerandomdude]

Awesome! I used FontSquirrel's font generator. Now I just need to figure out why the FontForge Python scripts are not generating usable EOT files...

Thanks for the confirmation!

[petrchutny]

It seems like EOT file isn't working again (IE7,8) – while the EOT generated from FontSquirrel (based on the TTF) works fine, BUT I can't manage to include all glyphs – even with no subsetting, the paper glyph is missing for instance.

[somerandomdude]

Grrr... OK. I'm kind of at a loss as to what's happening with the EOT file. I'll see what I can do to fix this.

[petrchutny]

Thank you kindly, may the force be with you and others who stand up to the god damn IE.

[underbluewaters]

I've tried putting the .ttf (both my own build and the own from the packaged download) through fontsquirrel and ttf2eot with no luck :(

[somerandomdude]

Is the EOT file not working for you?

On Sep 28, 2012, at 4:48 PM, Chad Burt notifications@github.com wrote:

I've tried putting the .ttf (both my own build and the own from the packaged download) through fontsquirrel and ttf2eot with no luck :(

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[underbluewaters]

I wasn't able to get the one in the packaged download to work, or any custom builds. I ended up using Fontello to put together a custom font which works. It took some fiddling with the character mappings though. I wonder if that could have had more to do with it. I'll try to do some tinkering in the morning.

[somerandomdude]

Let me know how it works out for you.

On Sep 28, 2012, at 4:48 PM, Chad Burt notifications@github.com wrote:

I've tried putting the .ttf (both my own build and the own from the packaged download) through fontsquirrel and ttf2eot with no luck :(

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[anthonybruno]

Having this problem as well. Nothing I do to regenerate an EOT seems to work. Any follow up?

[somerandomdude]

I'll look into this tonight/tomorrow.

On Jan 31, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Anthony Bruno notifications@github.com wrote:

Having this problem as well. Nothing I do to regenerate an EOT seems to work. Any follow up?

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[somerandomdude]

OK

[somerandomdude]

Sorry, I accidentally closed this. So I've updated the fonts and I know the EOT file is working. My demo code is not working though and I am still trying to figure out why that's the case. I'll update when I have a solution.

[petrchutny]

Good, thanks!

[somerandomdude]

No problem! Let me know if you have any issues.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Petr Chutný notifications@github.comwrote:

Good, thanks!

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