- From: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:09:30 +0200
- To: "Christopher Fynn" <cfynn@gmx.net>, "www-font" <www-font@w3.org>
From: "Christopher Fynn" <cfynn@gmx.net> > Interestingly > <http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/07/07/engineering-windows-7-for-a-global-market.aspx> > says: > > "In Windows 7, we needed a solution that would work for all languages and > for all fonts, so we created a hybrid approach that combines information > from the font itself with metadata (an XML file that provides the > information about the fonts on the system)." > > So obviously Microsoft already have developed their own XML metadata > format for fonts.... I'm not sure we talk about the same thing, here. It's a file that explains property of a font to make data extraction more easy in Windows 7. It's not a font embedding format. At least, it's not how I see the things.
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