- From: Adam Twardoch (List) <list.adam@twardoch.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:23:24 +0100
- To: "'www-font'" <www-font@w3.org>
- CC: rfink@readableweb.com
Richard Fink wrote: > I'd like to announce the availability of a new free tool for creating > natively compressed EOT files: EOTFAST. > http://eotfast.com > Savings in file size typically range from 45% to 70%. > It's fair to say that other conversion utilities like Microsoft WEFT or > ttf2eot are now obsolete. Richard, I was very happy to discover your tool a few days ago. Of course, your statement that other utilities "are now obsolete" is only true if one uses Microsoft Windows. EOTFAST is a Windows-only commandline utility, and since it uses a Windows API call to use the Windows built-in conversion, I understand that there is no way to port it to Mac or Linux. Using a virtual machine to run one commandline utility sounds like a little bit like an overkill, and in some conversion scenarions (e.g. on a web server running Linux), it's pretty much impossible. Yet I agree that your utility is highly useful, and I'm glad you chose to distribute it as donationware. Regards, Adam -- Adam Twardoch | Language Typography Unicode Fonts OpenType | twardoch.com | silesian.com | fontlab.net Reporter: "So what will your trip to Ireland look like?" Lech Wałęsa: "I get into a car, then onto a plane, and then the other way around."
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