- From: Dirk Schulze <vbs85@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:05:12 +0200
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>, Alex Danilo <alex@abbra.com>, "Dr. Olaf Hoffmann" <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>, www-svg@w3.org
Am Donnerstag, den 03.06.2010, 19:42 +1200 schrieb Robert O'Callahan: > 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. > It partly depends on the graphic library. Cairo has a very good support for converting texts to paths. Other librarys don't provide a way to do this or have a very bad support for it (don't support miter-limit, don't give the correct path for the stroke of the text and so on). Dirk
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