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

[Khaled Hosny]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:42:05PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
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> Le Lun 21 mars 2011 13:37, Khaled Hosny a écrit :
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> > 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.
> 
> Compared to raw files or compared to HTTP with mod_deflate or similar ?

Compared to raw TTF files, I couldn't test with server side compression
(or whatever it is called), but it is available and reliable that would
be OK too, I have no interest in WOFF beyond the compression it
provides.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
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