- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 00:21:22 +0100
- To: "Glenn A. Adams" <glenn@xfsi.com>
- CC: public-tt@w3.org, robin.berjon@expway.fr
On Friday, January 31, 2003, 9:11:57 PM, Glenn wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chris Lilley [mailto:chris@w3.org] >> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 2:49 PM >> To: public-tt@w3.org; Glenn A. Adams >> Cc: robin.berjon@expway.fr >> Subject: Re: TT and subtitling >> GAA> One potential issue with the SVG font format is its apparent >> GAA> lack of support for bitmap as opposed to outline glyph >> representations. >> >> That is a strength, not a feature. How are you going to cope with a >> range of display sizes and resolutions with a bitmap font? GAA> Obviously, if some author used embedded bitmaps, then it is clearly GAA> sub-optimal for device interoperability. On the other hand in some GAA> contexts, it might be that the author or perhaps the delivery system GAA> knows precisely what the required display sizes and resolutions that GAA> are required. This ties directly into whether TT is an autoring format, a delivery format, or both; and also, whether the model is that many device-specific versions are generated/authored or one portable one. GAA> On the other hand, clearly it would be a mistake, and I would GAA> never advocate sole reliance on use of bitmap representations; I just GAA> want to be certain that we meet the needs of common authoring and GAA> delivery systems, where there are many more uses made of bitmap glyph GAA> downloads than outlines at this time. True. Then again, there is lots more use of proprietary binary formats than XML, too, in that area. So change is possible, one hopes. GAA> One possible way this might be used is as follows: GAA> 1. authoring and distribution system specify outlines inline; GAA> 2. emission system that knows device capabilities pre-rasterizes, GAA> changing outlines to bitmaps; Yes, that is certainly possible. GAA> If we fail to define a way to embed bitmaps, then in this scenario, GAA> the emission system would be forced to use a different content format GAA> or to extend it in a potentially non-interoperable way. Yes. GAA> I would like to see us be able to support this scenario without GAA> requiring a different content format or a non-standard extension. I can certainly understand that. -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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