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

[Liam R E Quin]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 11:09 -0500, Daniel Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Ed Trager <ed.trager at gmail.com> wrote:
> > T[...]
> It would be trivial to write a FontForge script that generated an SVG
> font anytime someone uploaded a new .otf, .ttf or .sfd file. 

You'd have to make sure the license allowed redistribution of the
font in a different format and under the same name, of course.
Note also that all hinting is lost, as well as opentype tables...

In IE, the Adobe SVg viewer (I think unsupported now) does/did
support CFF OpenType fonts embedded in SVG files, though.

And of course one could use EOT for preview in IE...

Liam

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