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

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le lundi 09 février 2009 à 16:34 -0500, Liam R E Quin a écrit :
> 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...

Which is why the result should be a plain SVG file, not a "SVG font" or
anything that duplicated the whole font, to avoid font
embedding/derivative work licensing clauses (GPL... :()

(sure a preview is a derivative work but I doubt a *limited* derivative
work will ever be a legal problem)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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