Re: Open Font License FAQ updated!

Well, isn't it true that most real-world cases of EOT (i.e. WEFT-produced) result in some subsetting? Seems to me that EOT can be lossless, but often isn't -- whereas WOFF is necessarily lossless.

-C

On Aug 24, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Sylvain Galineau wrote:

>> From: public-webfonts-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-webfonts-wg-
>> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Dave Crossland
> 
> 
>> Question: 2.3 What about other webfont formats such as
>> EOT/EOTLite/CWT/etc.?
>> 
>> Answer: In most cases these formats alter the original font data more
>> than WOFF, and do not completely support appropriate metadata, so
>> their use must be considered modification and RFNs may not be used.
> 
> It's true that EOT does not have WOFF's metadata support, claiming that
> EOT alters the original font data more than WOFF is puzzling. Surely,
> prepending a header to the original file and compressing the whole thing 
> is less of an alteration of the font data proper than extracting each 
> table and compressing each individually.
> 
> 
> 

Received on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:24:09 UTC