- From: Paton J. Lewis <palewis@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:38:27 -0700
- To: "Laurence Penney" <Lorp@truetype.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>
At 11:11 AM 4/20/00 , Laurence Penney wrote: > > * Embed either Type1 or TrueType fonts in the SVG file using Adobe's CEF > > (Compact Embedded Font) format, which supports fully hinting and kerning >of > > Type1 fonts with superior compression characteristics > >Does it compress/subset TrueType fonts (preserving hinting of course)? > >-- Laurence Penney Laurence, When Illustrator 9 generates a CEF font from a TrueType font, Illustrator convertes the TrueType outlines to the CEF format, so there is no need to compress the resulting glyph data. However, Illustrator will subset the font based on the selection you make in the export dialog. Hinting is not preserved for TrueType fonts; hinting is only preserved when Type1 fonts are converted to CEF fonts. Pat ____________________________________________________________ Paton J. Lewis Adobe Systems 408.536.4754
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