- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:03:21 -0700
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On 12/07/13 12:03 PM, fantasai wrote: > This is reasonably common in printed advertisements, not just > hand-written signs. True, but those signs tend to be made in Illustrator and, by the time the designer has done converting to outlines and shoving things around, the relationship to interchangeable encoded text is pretty much the same as the greengrocer's handwriting. Digital typography has narrowed the gap between 'copy' and typeset text, but there are always going to be display conditions that enlarge that gap once again, as designers manipulate outlines, overlap, knock-out, etc.. There comes a point at which maintaining live text within the display (as distinct from, say alt text behind the display) is more trouble than its worth. While the move away from images of text on the Web to real text is entirely laudable, does anyone expect it to ever be universal? It hasn't been in desktop publishing, and I don't expect it to be in Web publishing. JH
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