Re: Downloadable fonts and image replacement

> > AFAIK, SVG fonts don't contain hinting information.
> True, they don't contain hinting at all.  However, the solution that  
> the freetype folks have come up with to avoid legal issues ('auto- 
> hinting') doesn't actually use "hinting" either (in the sense that no  

The impression I get on the www-svg list is that there is a very strong
lobby for absolutely platform independent rendering.  To the extent that
is true, auto-hinting would only be possible if it were specified in 
detail in the specification.

Received on Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:49:45 UTC