Re: Fwd: SVG Fonts

Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:14:38 +1200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.svg
Organization	Mozilla Corporation
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 7/09/09 2:21 PM, Rick wrote:
> Well, yeah, you can.  But you don't embed the encoding in the document, and
> therefore you do not control the geometry.

I'm suggesting using a downloadable, custom Truetype font via CSS 
@font-face.

These can even be embedded directly into the document using data: URLs.

The question is, what are SVG fonts good for that is not solved by CSS 
@font-face and Truetype/Opentype support.

Rob