Fwd: SVG Fonts

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From: Rick <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: SVG Fonts
To: Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]>


SVG fonts rock.  THEY ROCK!

Mostly because you can provide exact geometry for the whole page, and not
worry about the registration of the text.  Because you provide it.  But
also, if you like, you can do a lot of cool things with a font that you
design.

This is one of the reasons that Batik is a really useful tool.  It will
encode fonts for you.

I'm curious, as one of the early adopters, why SVG fonts are not widely
implemented.

You have font metrics, you have SVG.  It's not rocket science.  (I've been
dying to say this, thank you)

MAKE IT HAPPEN!


On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 4/09/09 6:39 PM, svgNick wrote:
>
>> Are there any plans to implement SVG fonts in Firefox?   By SVG fonts
>> I mean the font tag defined in the SVG spec as distinct from fonts
>> installed on the user computer.   An example of what I'm talking about
>> is the Chess
>> Sophia Font produced by Max Froumentain formely of W3C.
>>
>> the first part of it looks like this:
>> <font horiz-adv-x="0">
>> <font-face font-family="ChessSophia" units-per-em="1000" panose-1="0 0
>> 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0" ascent="1000" descent="0" alphabetic="0"/>
>> <missing-glyph horiz-adv-x="500" d="M63 0V1000H438V0H63ZM125
>> 63H375V938H125V63Z"/>
>>
>
> Recently I've been wondering what the actual need is for SVG fonts. What
> can SVG fonts do that you can't do with a custom Truetype/Opentype font?
>
> Rob
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Cheers!
Rick




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Cheers!
Rick