On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Ed Trager <[email protected]> wrote: > To write a server-side program that generates a bitmap image of text > is fairly simple. To write a server-side program that generates the > SVG snippets instead is more work. However such an SVG curve > generator would be pretty cool because then you could scale the text > dynamically on the client side, change colors using CSS, and generally > have a lot of fun playing around with the SVG outlines directly on the > client side. So it would be quite cool if someone did it.
It would be trivial to write a FontForge script that generated an SVG font anytime someone uploaded a new .otf, .ttf or .sfd file. However, browser support for SVG fonts is virtually nonexistent. As I recall reading, Firefox support for SVG fonts missed the 3.1 feature deadline. It's possible to turn an SVG font into a series of standard SVG shapes; all you need to do is a vertical flip and some scaling -- a simple "transform" attribute on the <g> element surrounding the glyph. Regards, Daniel
