My personal pet peeve is that RSVG does not support the font embedding part of the SVG specification. So we are limited to either using fonts immediately available on the Mediawiki servers or downconverting all text to shape outlines. The former can lead to unpredictable renderings, while the later makes the text in SVG files more difficult to edit.
I realize that font embedding may have some intellectual property concerns, though I have to imagine that similar concerns still exist when a font is converted to shape outlines which seems to be the current recommended practice. After all, font embedding is really just an indirect way of specifying character shapes. In addition to the lack of embedded font support, Adobe, RSVG, and Inkscape all seem to have different quirks regarding text alignments, positioning, and path following. So even if one is using an available font, one still may end up downconverting the text in order to get a consistent rendering. -Robert Rohde On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all -- > > I'm putting together a talk proposal for SVG Open 2009, which will be in > early October at the Google campus in Mountain View, CA: > > https://www.svgopen.org/2009/ > > I've got plenty of background I can pull in on the challenges and > benefits of SVG on the web and the tradeoffs we've made in our usage and > implementation, but I know lots of you folks out there have been more > active on the 'content-generation' end of things and can point out some > things I wouldn't think of. > > If anybody's got any particularly interesting issues, examples, > problems, or idea prototypes relating to usage of SVG on Wikipedia and > other Wikimedia sites, I'd love to see how much I can pack in. :) > > Pointers to cool feature proposals like Nikola's localization > presentation at Wikimania last year, or bulk anaylsis like benchmarks > and compatibility tests on images in actual use would be of particular > interest. > > -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
