- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:31:31 +0200
- To: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@googlemail.com>
- CC: WebFonts WG <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:55:50 PM, Jonathan wrote: JK> On 5 Oct 2011, at 14:24, Chris Lilley wrote: >> * FontSquirrel >> http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator >> FontSquirrel says that "OTF fonts are now converted to TTF for better rendering on Windows." which could be a problem. JK> While this may be a useful service for some users, it doesn't JK> qualify as a fully-conforming WOFF generator. There's no way it JK> can satisfy "The result of creating a WOFF file and then decoding JK> this to regenerate an sfnt font MUST result in a final font that JK> is bitwise-identical to the well-formed input font" for JK> OpenType/CFF input if it's converting CFF to TT glyphs, for example. I agree, and will contact the author to see if this conversion can be made optional. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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