Re: SVG Fonts [...]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote:

> I see no technical barrier for SVG-to-canvas solutions in the future.
> Is it an unnecessary use-case, that a person may want to apply a "filter"
> to the paths in an font? Path filters can't access the underlying
> data of a binary font, without a descriptive API above the font.
>
> Any chance of getting more data than "width" for WOFF?
>

Most graphics APIs offer a way to convert text to path data. I think canvas
and SVG should too.

Rob
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