- From: Adam Twardoch (List) <list.adam@twardoch.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:44:00 +0100
- To: Chris Fynn <cfynn@gmx.net>
- CC: www-font@w3.org
Chris Fynn wrote: > Do these eot utilities work with TrueType OpenType fonts for > complex-scripts which contain a lot of OpenType lookups? > > In particular I'm concerned about sub-setting. Chris, none of these tools performs subsetting. They offer (rightly) just one core functionality: converting a .ttf to .eot (which means, "wrapping" a .ttf into an .eot "envelope"). Whatever .ttf you feed in, you'll get an equivalent .eot. How you arrive at the .ttf that you feed into the .eot creation tool is a different matter. Subsetting is an issue of font editing, not font conversion. There are various tools available for editing, and some can perform subsetting, and they do subsetting in a variety of ways. Of course, I'm not saying there cannot be a tool that does subsetting and conversion to .eot, but those still remain two separate steps: first you take some .ttf and make a subsetted .ttf, and then you convert that subsetted .ttf into an equivalent .eot. Best, 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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