[Clipart] SVG font

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 09:03 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Jon Phillips wrote:
>   >
> > I think it suits our project best to release fonts in an open standard.
> > Are OpenType or TrueType open standards?
> > 
> > Supporting SVG fonts is something novel however. If we could include the
> > SVG version of his font with standard metadata included, wouldn't this
> > be okay in our Library?
> 
> But there is *any* application capable to use SVG fonts? Inkscape can do 
> that?

Not yet, but I'm hoping that because an SVG Font now exists, that it
will drive this in Inkscape. Also, I was reading that Inkscape Godfather
Raph Levien (http://www.levien.com/) has been working on some type
features which he would like integrated into Inkscape.

> Personally I am disappointed by reading in the specs "SVG fonts contain 
> unhinted font _outlines_", I hoped for it to allow full color shapes, to 
> create something like a chromed font or a wooded and covered with snow 
> font (I guess it would be a cool project to create something like this).

Yeah, it would be worth an email to the SVG working group...anyone up to
do that? Otherwise, I might read the spec and ask their thoughts...

Jon

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