- From: Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:07:26 +0200
- To: bob6000 <bob6000@gawab.com>, www-style@w3.org
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. -- Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Personal blog: http://my.opera.com/macdev_ed
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