- From: Doug Schepers <doug@schepers.cc>
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 00:05:09 -0400
- To: <www-svg@w3.org>
> >> Text is just one very specific kind of scalable images. > > > No, words are words, they're very different from images, and very > > importantly so, letters are just images certainly, but words and > > sentances are not. > > Well, if letters are images, > a set of letter is also a set of image > and therefore, an image. =P I just wanted to jump in here, briefly. Text is not an image, neither as words nor letters. The glyphs used to represent the letters are. The crucial difference that I believe Jim was conveying is that the glyphs are not simply images, but have metadata intrinsically associated with them, which are the letters, numbers, and other encoded symbols -- and thus can be searched for programmatically, highlighted, copied and pasted, and evaluated for informational content. This is a powerful feature of SVG, and is quite unlike raster images or MM Flash, where "text" really is simply another image. Text is no more an image in SVG than in a text editor. I realize that this was not your central point, but I thought it stood clarification. -Doug
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