RE: svg fonts as web font format?

On Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:28 AM Gustavo Ferreira wrote:
> 
> sorry if this question is naive or has already been 
> discussed, but what are the problems with svg-fonts? wasn't 
> this w3c's proposal for web-fonts in the first place? why not 
> invest time & effort in making svg-fonts finally work, and 
> extend it with the necessary meta-info?
> 

I'd suggest to read this
(http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/fonts.html#SVGFontsOverview and
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/text.html#TextFonts) Plus, conversion
of original font to SVG would in general be considered a production of
derivative work that is expressly forbidden by many (if not all) font
licenses.

Vladimir