[OpenFontLibrary] @font-face, is it really needed for font preview?

[Khaled Hosny]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:09:37AM -0500, Daniel Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Ed Trager <ed.trager at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To write a server-side program that generates a bitmap image of text
> > is fairly simple.  To write a server-side program that generates the
> > SVG snippets instead is more work.  However such an SVG curve
> > generator would be pretty cool because then you could scale the text
> > dynamically on the client side, change colors using CSS, and generally
> > have a lot of fun playing around with the SVG outlines directly on the
> > client side.  So it would be quite cool if someone did it.
> 
> It would be trivial to write a FontForge script that generated an SVG
> font anytime someone uploaded a new .otf, .ttf or .sfd file.  However,
> browser support for SVG fonts is virtually nonexistent.  As I recall
> reading, Firefox support for SVG fonts missed the 3.1 feature
> deadline.  It's possible to turn an SVG font into a series of standard
> SVG shapes; all you need to do is a vertical flip and some scaling --
> a simple "transform" attribute on the <g> element surrounding the
> glyph.

But then you forget about showing any CTL or advanced OpenType features
in the font.

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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