Re: Announcing new font compression project

There already is an open-source implementation of EOT with MicroType Express compression, it's in the Java source of Google's sfntly library.

Best,
Adam

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On 28.03.2012, at 10:39, suzuki toshiya <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Raph,
> 
> It's interesting to see that MonoType had decided to provide
> their font compression technology under open-source friendly
> license. When I met with Vladimir at SC29/WG11 meeting in
> Kyoto (Japan), the "lessening" of the license for ISO/IEC
> 14496-18 would not be possible. It would be helpful to make
> an open-source implementation for EOT? :-)
> 
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
> 
> Raph Levien wrote:
>> This is an open source project, and we encourage participation from the
>> whole community. I'd also like to thank a number of people who have
>> contributed so far: the compression code is based on sfntly (by the Google
>> Internationalization team), the decompression code is built on top of OTS
>> (the OpenType Sanitizer), and a number of pleasant discussions with Vlad
>> Levantovsky, John Daggett have helped improved it. Many of the ideas, and
>> some particulars of the glyf table compression, are based on Monotype
>> Imaging's MicroType Express format, which is now available under
>> open-source and proprietary friendly licensing terms, see
>> http://monotypeimaging.com/aboutus/mtx-license.aspx. Also thanks to Kenichi
>> Ishibashi for doing an integration into Chromium so we can test it in real
>> browsers (this will also be released soon).
>> 
>> We're looking forward to the discussion!
>> 
>> Raph Levien
>> Engineer, Google Web Fonts
>> 
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