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

[Khaled Hosny]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 04:15:06PM +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2009/2/9 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
> >
> > BTW if someone could spend the time to write a SVG preview generator
> > that could be integrated in web sites and package generation
> > processes, that would be great.
> 
> I can think of 3 things to do this:
> 
> http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/09/08/custom-fonts-with-dojoxgfx/
> 
> eg, http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/dojotoolkit/demos/fonts/comic.html
> 
> http://www.tlhiv.org/ltxpreview/ - with a XeLaTeX backend to do font
> loading/handling via pango.

This would be overkill, why don't use Pango directly? I don't think we
need any of the typesetting features that XeLaTeX has.

Regards,
 Khaled

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