Optimising TTF glyf outlines

My apologies for missing the conference call. New power lines were being 
strung to the island today, so we were without electricity until this 
evening.


Re. this idea:

>> -          Idea up for discussion: Sampo and I had a quick chat
>> about WOFF 2.0 activities and he came up with an idea on one
>> additional optimization item for TTF glyph data – the outline
>> points. In many cases the outline points are defined so that  the
>> on-curve point between two off-curve points can be easily calculated
>> as a middle point of the line segment that connects off-curve point.
>> The on-curve points are needed to be explicitly defined for hints,
>> but when optimizing font data for compression those  that are
>> trivially located and can be restored easily can be dropped (and
>> restored later after decompression). What do you guys think – should we try and evaluate this?

We could try, although I doubt there would be much benefit in reducing 
font size by a small amount only to have to spend time after 
decompression adding the points back. Also, there are a fair number of 
things that could go wrong in the process and that would have to be 
protected against.

JH

Received on Thursday, 7 November 2013 05:51:34 UTC