Re: SVG Fonts

On 8/09/09 6:31 PM, svgNick wrote:
> SVG allows you to specify or embed a font in a document&  be sure the
> user will not get a lot of missing-glyph symbols when a suitable font
> is not installed on their machine.
> My special interest is chess - there are Unicode points for all pieces
> but very few fonts implement them (Arial Unicode MS&/or  MS Gothic in
> windows).
> SVG fonts also work well with Apache FOP (implementation of xsl-fo).
> This can save you the trouble of generating a font metrics file from
> an installed ttf when the font you want is not one of the 14 core pdf
> fonts.
> Another thing I like about SVG fonts is that anyone who can specify a
> path can avoid copyright issues by developing their own font.

You can do all those things with CSS @font-face downloadable fonts and a 
custom Truetype/Opentype font.

Rob