- From: Adam Twardoch (List) <list.adam@twardoch.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:56:08 +0200
- To: suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
- Cc: Raph Levien <raph@google.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
There already is an open-source implementation of EOT with MicroType Express compression, it's in the Java source of Google's sfntly library. Best, Adam Sent from my mobile phone. On 28.03.2012, at 10:39, suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp> wrote: > Hi Raph, > > It's interesting to see that MonoType had decided to provide > their font compression technology under open-source friendly > license. When I met with Vladimir at SC29/WG11 meeting in > Kyoto (Japan), the "lessening" of the license for ISO/IEC > 14496-18 would not be possible. It would be helpful to make > an open-source implementation for EOT? :-) > > Regards, > mpsuzuki > > Raph Levien wrote: >> This is an open source project, and we encourage participation from the >> whole community. I'd also like to thank a number of people who have >> contributed so far: the compression code is based on sfntly (by the Google >> Internationalization team), the decompression code is built on top of OTS >> (the OpenType Sanitizer), and a number of pleasant discussions with Vlad >> Levantovsky, John Daggett have helped improved it. Many of the ideas, and >> some particulars of the glyf table compression, are based on Monotype >> Imaging's MicroType Express format, which is now available under >> open-source and proprietary friendly licensing terms, see >> http://monotypeimaging.com/aboutus/mtx-license.aspx. Also thanks to Kenichi >> Ishibashi for doing an integration into Chromium so we can test it in real >> browsers (this will also be released soon). >> >> We're looking forward to the discussion! >> >> Raph Levien >> Engineer, Google Web Fonts >> > > > >
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