eot embedded fonts

[Brennan T Vincent]

Sure, I can work on the libreoffice integration myself. Pointers would be
good :)


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Jan Holesovsky <kendy at suse.cz> wrote:

> Hi Brennan,
>
> Brennan T Vincent píše v Po 26. 08. 2013 v 21:23 -0700:
>
> > One of the most commonly-occurring problems with .pub import is the
> > fact that we don't respect embedded fonts. Now that LibreOffice
> > supports embedded fonts, it should be possible to make this work.
> >
> > A few questions:
> >
> > (1) Do we support Embedded OpenType fonts currently? (.eot)
> >
> > (2) If not (which I suspect), I can contribute some code to do this.
> > Microsoft and Monotype recently granted a perpetual, irrevocable free
> > patent and copyright license to implement the .eot format, so there
> > should be no legal issues. I have written a C library to convert
> > from .eot to .ttf and would like to know who to talk to in order to
> > get this included in LibreOffice.
>
> This is so cool, thanks for that! :-)  Lubos [CC'd] has implemented the
> font embedding, and actually impossibility of reading .eot was blocking
> the PPTX font embedding implementation.  He has invested some time into
> reading .eot, but did not finish that IIRC.
>
> > I can provide more details if anyone is interested.
>
> That would be awesome - where does the code of your library live,
> please?  Are you willing to do the LibreOffice integration part
> yourself? - Lubos would provide you with the code pointers in that case.
>
> All the best,
> Kendy
>
>
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