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

[Daniel Johnson]

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.

Regards,
Daniel