Re: Chromatic fonts - implementation roundup [via SVG glyphs for OpenType Community Group]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your color fonts round-up. It’s great that Edge now supports OT-SVG. Support in two major browsers is a good incentive for the others to follow suit.

It’s not clear from your message whether you are saying the scaling bug is in Edge/DirectWrite or in the LapisLegit test itself [others: follow link below to see links in Chris’ original post].

I’d heard LapisLegit had a bug whereby oversized glyphs were shown in Win 10. I’ve asked Roel to comment on this.

Best,
Sairus




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Reply-To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
Date: Monday, August 15, 2016 at 7:10 AM
To: "public-svgopentype@w3.org" <public-svgopentype@w3.org>
Subject: Chromatic fonts - implementation roundup [via SVG glyphs for OpenType Community Group]
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Resent-Date: Monday, August 15, 2016 at 7:10 AM

>The implementation of SVG glyphs for OpenType in Firefox is well known. Recently
>however with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, I noticed that Microsoft Edge 14
>also now supports them!
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>Check to see what your browser supports!
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>Unfortunately, there is currently a scaling bug which makes each SVG glyph twice
>as big as it should be. But I am sure that will be fixed pretty soon. Compare
>these SVG glyphs vs. inline SVG, in Firefox and then in Edge 14.
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>A little digging reveals even better news - this isn't an Edge-specific update.
>Instead DirectWrite and Direct2D have been updated to support SVG in OpenType
>(also the Google CBDT colored PNG glyphs and the undocumented but
>reverse-engineered Apple sbix colored raster format. (This is in addition to the
>existing COLR/CPAL support that has been there since Windows 8.1).
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>Amusingly, this means that Edge 14 has better support for the Google-originated
>CBDT fonts than Google Chrome itself has, due to a bug in the Chrome OpenType
>sanitizer which rejects CBDT fonts for not having a glyf table. This means that
>Chrome will currently only display CBDT fonts that are installed, not ones
>loaded by @font-face.
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>This post sent on SVG glyphs for OpenType Community Group
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>'Chromatic fonts - implementation roundup'
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>https://www.w3.org/community/svgopentype/2016/08/15/chromatic-fonts-implementation-roundup/

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>Learn more about the SVG glyphs for OpenType Community Group: 
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>https://www.w3.org/community/svgopentype

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Received on Monday, 15 August 2016 17:49:23 UTC