Re: who can I talk to?

Hello Jeremie,

Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 10:07:28 AM, you wrote:

> Hi Micah

> I'm as confused as you are. As far as I know, SVG has absolutely no hinti=
ng
> capabilities and I'm not aware of any plan about this within the upcoming
> SVG 2 standard.

Having spoken with Sairus (who wrote that blog entry), I suspect that
he is referring to multiple graphical representations of the same
glyph, chosen using Media Queries.

Its not really accurate to call this hinting, but I suppose he calls
it an 'alternative to hinting' which is less incorrect.

> I'm CC'ing Cameron McCormack (SVG Co-Chair) and Edwin Flores (Who impleme=
nt
> SVG in OpenType in FF) as well as the Mozilla SVG ML. Those people are the
> best to help us figure this out.

Or I will be seeing Sairus tomorrow afternoon and could ask him.

> Best,
> J=E9r=E9mie


> 2013/10/9 John Karahalis <[email protected]>

>> Micah, Jeremie Patonnier (copied here) is our resident SVG expert and he=
ad
>> of our SVG documentation.
>>
>> Jeremie, Micah does some amazing work on fonts at Monotype--you have
>> probably seen his work without even knowing it! Do you know what Adobe
>> meant when it said "SVG also has a powerful equivalent to hinting"?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> John Karahalis
>> Mozilla
>> openjck.com
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> *From: *"John Karahalis" <[email protected]>
>> *To: *"John Karahalis" <[email protected]>
>> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 8, 2013 4:28:25 PM
>> *Subject: *Fwd: who can I talk to?
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: who can I talk to?
>> From: Micah Stupak <[email protected]>
>> To: John Karahalis <[email protected]>
>> CC:
>>
>> http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2013/10/svg-opentype-genesis.html
>>
>> Last paragraph: "SVG also has a powerful equivalent to hinting." Seeing =
as
>> that's my job and I am trying to become our webfont guru, do you know of
>> anyone over at Moz/FF who can clue me in here? I've already emailed my
>> Adobe people.
>>
>> Thanks. How's tricks? You're back in CA now, eh?
>>
>> --
>> Micah Stupak
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>





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