- From: Vadim Plessky <plessky@cnt.ru>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:58:56 +0300
- To: www-svg@w3.org
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 3:13 pm, Tobias Reif wrote: | Vadim Plessky wrote: | > First I need to see SVG fonts, | | You can get lots of free TTF fonts, then convert them to SVG Font via | Batik. It's a lot of fun. In a short: I stopped using TTF fonts about year ago, and actively promote usage of PostScript Type1 (or Type2/CFF) fonts. But thanks for this reference, may be one day I would install Batik and try this. Does it convert TrueType hints (opcodes) to SVG, too? | | > and second - renderer capable to handle them. | | ASV (external files not yet supported), Batik, etc. | | http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/20011026/fonts-fontElement-BE-01-ps.htm |l | See | http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/BE-ImpStatus-20011026.html Thanks for the URLs! | | > Majot font editors I am aware of (closed-source FontLab, and open-source | > PfaEdit) are not able to export SVG fonts. | | use batik's ttf2svg | | But sure, a native SVG Font editor would be great :) | | ... since SVG Font support *a lot* more than TTF: filters, animation etc | etc etc I still should to learn *why* you may want to have filters or animations inside *font*. "Right tool for the right task", IMO. | | > For example, it seems that Adobe SVG plugin (Windows) renders fonts on | > its own, ignoring Windows font rasterizer. | > While such approach may be ok for Adobe's graphics apps (PhotoShop, | > Illustrator), text at small sizes (8pt-12pt) in unreadable in such case | | Use the renderung related properties to make small text readable. Do you mean, "hints"? | | Tobi -- Best Regards, Vadim Plessky SVG Icons http://svgicons.sourceforge.net
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