[OpenFontLibrary] [Blueprint font-face-generator] The library must automatically generate @font-face files for uploaded fonts

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Mon Mar 21 05:37:35 PDT 2011


On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 04:05:32AM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 21 March 2011 02:13, Christopher Adams <chris at raysend.com> wrote:
> >
> > The question I want to pose to this list is, what is the best solution
> > for OFLB to generate webfonts on the fly for all uploaded font files?
> 
> Given uploads require a TTF, then the only conversion neccessary is to
> generate an EOT with ttf2eot - since all platforms support TTF web
> fonts now, except MSIE before v9 (although, MSIE9 only supports TTF
> with an fsType of 0)

I'd prefer using WOFF when supported, the compression ratio is ~50% in
my tests and this can be significant for many fonts.

Regards,
 Khaled

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