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

[Dave Crossland]

2009/2/9 Liam R E Quin <liam at holoweb.net>:
> 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.

Can you name some examples of such fonts that are free software?

> 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.

This is more about writing out a graphic SVG that doesn't really have
the font in it, just some glyph shapes.

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

If someone writes an EOT converter, then, yes.

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Regards,
Dave