[OpenFontLibrary] WOFF Ultra Condensed

[Chris Lilley]

On Thursday, March 29, 2012, 9:46:38 AM, Fontfreedom wrote:

>>In this proposal, we've tried to strike a balance between  complexity
>>and aggressiveness of compression. The biggest gains by far  come from
>>better compression of the glyf table (and eliminating the loca  table
>>altogether), so basically this proposal squeezes this table to  the
>>maximum.

Fac> Why is it a good idea to remove the glyph location "loca"  table?

It is removed for transfer (partly because the offsets would be incorrect as a result of the compression, but mostly because it can be recomputed), then recreated as the font is decompressed.   



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 Chris Lilley   Technical Director, Interaction Domain                 
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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