[OpenFontLibrary] [Blueprint font-face-generator] The library must automatically generate @font-face files for uploaded fonts

[Christopher Adams]

What about providing all possible formats and letting the browser decide?

Cf. The New Bulletproof @Font-Face Syntax
http://www.fontspring.com/blog/the-new-bulletproof-font-face-syntax

@font-face {
	font-family: 'MyFontFamily';
	src: url('myfont-webfont.eot?') format('eot'),
	     url('myfont-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
	     url('myfont-webfont.ttf')  format('truetype'),
	     url('myfont-webfont.svg#svgFontName') format('svg');
}

In any case if we can generate these files, then we can make them
available as individual downloads on the font profile page.

- Christopher

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:42:05PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>
>>
>> Le Lun 21 mars 2011 13:37, Khaled Hosny a écrit :
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 04:05:32AM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
>> >> On 21 March 2011 02:13, Christopher Adams <chris at raysend.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > The question I want to pose to this list is, what is the best solution
>> >> > for OFLB to generate webfonts on the fly for all uploaded font files?
>> >>
>> >> Given uploads require a TTF, then the only conversion neccessary is to
>> >> generate an EOT with ttf2eot - since all platforms support TTF web
>> >> fonts now, except MSIE before v9 (although, MSIE9 only supports TTF
>> >> with an fsType of 0)
>> >
>> > I'd prefer using WOFF when supported, the compression ratio is ~50% in
>> > my tests and this can be significant for many fonts.
>>
>> Compared to raw files or compared to HTTP with mod_deflate or similar ?
>
> Compared to raw TTF files, I couldn't test with server side compression
> (or whatever it is called), but it is available and reliable that would
> be OK too, I have no interest in WOFF beyond the compression it
> provides.
>
> Regards,
>  Khaled
>
> --
>  Khaled Hosny
>  Egyptian
>  Arab
>



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