Re: WOFF 2.0 (Brotli) Compression Update

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Joe Vieira <joe@myfonts.com> wrote:

> I will run the MyFonts library ~350k fonts through the tool. I'll report
> my findings possibly as early as the next call.
>

Fantastic, thank you Joe!

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> Joe Vieira
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:08 PM, David Kuettel <kuettel@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Working group,
>>
>> As planned, the Google Compression team pushed out a new version of
>> Brotli to the open source project.  The highlights (see the previous
>> update for a full list), include: simplifications to the Brotli format,
>> decompression speed gains for a text corpus, improved text compression (now
>> within 3% of LZMA), etc.
>>
>> Also, the new WOFF 2.0 (w/ Brotli) conversion tool has been open
>> sourced.
>>
>> We are very eager to see the new conversion tool run over the large font
>> collections (Monotype, Adobe/Typekit, and more) as was done for the LZMAbased implementation earlier.  This could be good to explore in the
>> conference call today.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> David (on behalf of the extended team)
>>
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