[OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] Treatment of the OFL in the wild

[Victor Gaultney]

On 3 Jun 2013, at 23:47, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:

> You can embed a webfont as base64 encoded string inside the HTML file.

Good point, Khaled. That does sound like traditional embedding. The key differences from standard web fonts use are that:

- The font is delivered as part of the HTML file, not a separate resource
- The font is provided by the same server as the rest of the doc
- The font is used for only one document
- The font is always present, even if the doc is viewed offline

I'm not sure whether an embedded web font would be any more difficult to extract than normal web fonts. Anyone have thoughts on this?

These differences are significant. Nicolas has been out of the office for a couple of weeks. When he gets back in the office I'll talk with him about adjusting the FAQ and web fonts paper to address fonts delivered within the HTML file.

> Even the common case of just linking to the file is not much different
> from bundling the font in the zip container of ODT or DOCX.

I think it is. In a zip the fonts travel with the doc and they cannot be used by other docs unless you extract them.

V
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