- From: <glen@met.bitstream.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 22:40:37 est
- To: admin@verso.com, david@dsiegel.com, www-font@w3.org
- Cc: glen@met.bitstream.com, ray@met.bitstream.com, johnc@met.bitstream.com, james@met.bitstream.com, johns@met.bitstream.com
David and Hussein,
Here are our thoughts on font production on the publishing side. Glen
Rippel.
Font Production Overview:
Authoring a finished document or Web page should contain complete
references to all the resources needed to support the document. It may
contain references to Text, Fonts, graphics, audio, animations, or
video. Fonts accessed by authoring tools should exist in either
TrueType or Type1 format. These are the two formats that font
foundries know how to produce and application developers know how to
access and image. Also device drivers for printers only know these two
formats.
Authors or publisher and their applications are responsible for
creation of the document and all resource links including the neutral
font data. The data can be attached to documents or referenced with a
url so that it can be optionally retrieved by the user.
Production of the neutral font data is done by the authoring tools.
TrueDoc provides the functions to produce this neutral font data which
we call Portable Font Resources or PFRs. TrueDoc is supplied as an
SDK to developers and includes complete source code, Mac libs, and Win
libs for 16 and 32 bit.
Received on Wednesday, 7 February 1996 01:55:24 UTC