- From: Alex Danilo <alex@research.canon.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:18:50 +1100
- To: Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@informatik.med.uni-giessen.de>
- Cc: public-svg-print@w3.org
Hi Roland, >I wasn't aware that there is a spec for font outlines described via SVG. >Sounds nice - but it seems to have to write another converter >(TTF/OTF/PS Type1/BDF/PCF) --> SVG-Font... ;-( > >Two questions: >- Is there already such a converter available somewhere ? I believe there is a converter for TrueType somewhere, I can't remember where though. >- IS there any utility which supports SVG fonts (to test the output of >my converter code) ? The Adobe & Corel SVG plugins & Batik's Squiggle viewer will support display of SVG fonts. >It seems that the "SVG fonts" option is the way which should be used for >SVGPrint, otherwise the neccesary support code within devices such as >printers would become much larger just to support another bunch of font >formats (and the SVGPrint spec would need to specify a standard for >downloading such "alien" (e.g. non-XML syntax based) font formats). Yes, also SVG fonts allow for exactly reproducable results on all implementations and have good support for Unicode as well. Alex
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