- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:01:00 +0200
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
* Håkon Wium Lie wrote: >Certainly, at Opera, we are very proud of our SVG implementation. I >see some issues wrt. using SVG as a font format, though. First, I >havn't seen any SVG font families. It would be helpful if someone >could take an existing font family (I suggest Bitstream's Vera) and >convert it to SVG for comparison purposes. Second, AFAIK, SVG fonts >cannot hold TrueTypes's embedding information (or equivalent). Third, >AFAIK, SVG fonts don't contain hinting information. http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/ttf2svg.html and other converters exist (in addition to SVG font support in a number of font tools and vector graphic software). There is http://www.w3.org/2003/08/sera/ as an example, and there are online tools to give you only the set of glyphs you really need and similar things. SVG also address other of the problems cited, including compression and showing alternate images only if a certain font-family is not available. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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