- From: Gustavo Ferreira <gustavo.ferreira@hipertipo.net>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 18:56:08 +0200
- To: cfynn@gmx.net
- Cc: www-font@w3.org
it is possible to make fake b&w and greyscale bitmap fonts, that is, fonts that contain outlines but that look like bitmap fonts if used in the appropriate resolution. On Jul 7, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Christopher Fynn wrote: > 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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