β Category: | Font Files |
β Developer: | Microsoft Corporation |
π An .EOT file standard belongs to the category of OpenType (.OTF) fonts suggested to be built-into a distinctive document, such as a PowerPoint presentation or a webpage. Generally, .EOT data content is initiated, defined, and integrated with the involvement of Microsoft Web Embedding Fonts Tool (WEFT). Therefore, the .EOT entities are commonly stored along with the associated document and not implied to be opened in the manual procedure. The noted extension specification was initially designed by Microsoft enterprise to permit developers to integrate OpenType fonts into custom webpages, so the text would each time appear in the correct font branch in online open representation. Appropriately, the developers acquired an opportunity to use WEFT toolkit to transform existing OpenType file definition into an .EOT entry, which they would afterwards link and attach with one or more specific webpages or online documents.
π The .EOT file items are not suggested to be opened by any existing tool or software package. Instead, you are expected to apply eotinfo cross-platform utility to review particular data which concerns an appropriate .EOT object instance. When the file standard was initially implemented, Internet Explorer browser became the only program solution which could ever support the .EOT structure and layout. Afterwards, the .EOT mechanics were consecutively replaced and substituted by a newer .WOFF technology, which serves as web-optimized font file logic. Microsoft ceased any compliance with the WEFT suite and terminated the chance to download it from the genuine corporate server since 2019. Pay attention to the fact that outcome .EOT documents can be afterwards generated from the source .TTF schema items. Miscellaneously, the .EOT content has been distributed and shared in compressed shape, which made them faster to load through the web, and consisted of a few sustainable copyright-security features (i.e., encryption and subsetting).