- From: Christopher Fynn <cfynn@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:29:05 +0600
- CC: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Aren't these bitmaps also limited to B&W only, no greyscale? Thomas Phinney wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Mikko > Rantalainen<mikko.rantalainen@peda.net> wrote: >> OTF files can include bitmap glyphs if I haven't totally misunderstood. >> Do not distribute the actual font shaping data if you are not >> comfortable with anybody copying that data. Instead, pre-render those >> shapes as bitmaps and distribute a collection of those bitmaps as the >> "web font". Use deformed vector shapes if such data is always required >> by the OTF (I don't know). That would be the low-res font file directly >> comparable with low-res image. > > Although that would be great in principle, and you're right about the > font format supporting bitmaps, I am of the impression that current > operating systems do not support those bitmaps AFAIK. If that is > correct, then such fonts would not work on Mac or Windows. (I'll trust > others to correct me if I'm mistaken here.) > > Regards, > > T >
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