Re: SVG Fonts

On Sep 9, 1:31 pm, Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the info - I tried downloadable fonts through CSS a few
years ago and they simply didn't work.
The only way I could find was an MS proprietary method that only
worked in IE.
I obviously need to look into it again.