- From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:15:35 -0700
- To: Christopher Fynn <cfynn@gmx.net>
- Cc: www-font <www-font@w3.org>, François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Christopher Fynn<cfynn@gmx.net> wrote: > François REMY wrote: > >> 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. >> > > No - but if there is going to be a meta data format for web-fonts it would > be nice to ensure that it did not conflict with and maybe that it worked > well together with whatever this Windows 7 font meta data format is. At > least some of the information is bound to be he same. > > Anyway do you know where we can find the details of this MS font metadata > file? Without going into a bunch of detail (not sure if this is still under NDA), the MS approach involves a single metadata file for all fonts, with just a few very specific bits of data in it. It really is a totally different animal, solving a different problem.... Regards, T
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