- From: Ben Weiner <ben@readingtype.org.uk>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:21:23 +0100
- To: www-font@w3.org
- Cc: "Dr. Olaf Hoffmann" <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
Hi,
On 27 Jun 2011, at 10:22, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann wrote:
> Note that a typical fallback for SVG today is to use no fonts at all but
> the path element even without advanced graphical effects,
> see for example the SVG output of openstreetmap.org .
When you say 'use no fonts at all' do you mean 'embed glyphs into the SVG'?
I used OSM's SVG output last year for a project and there was certainly 'real' text at that time, expressed in the SVG like this:
<text class="highway-name highway-pedestrian-name" dy="0.35px">
<textPath xlink:href="#way_normal_2986299" startOffset="50%">Broad Street</textPath>
</text>
I know that because I used CSS to format them into a locally-available and not permissively-licensed font before rendering as PostScript :)
Ben
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