Re: webfonts

On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:35:36 +0200, bob6000 <bob6000@gawab.com> wrote:

> A mature font format should provide for kerning, ligatures, and
> resolution independency. There must be a standard way to map the
> glyphs to Unicode characters. And on the Web, it should also be free
> (at least the decoding software).
>
> Defining a new format is a lot of work. It can be done when needed (as
> was PNG for bitmap graphics), but maybe there already is a format we
> can use. I know of Postscript, TrueType, MetaFont, BDF/PCF, and
> TrueDoc[2]. Before designing a new format, I want to be sure that none
> of
> these meet the requirements.

SVG Fonts fulfills those requirements, see http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/fonts.html.

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Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software
Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
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Received on Thursday, 16 April 2009 09:09:37 UTC