On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:09:37AM -0500, Daniel Johnson wrote: > 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.
But then you forget about showing any CTL or advanced OpenType features in the font. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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