Hi Chris,

Chris Lilley wrote:
> On Thursday, February 24, 2005, 1:42:51 PM, Andreas wrote:

> AN> I have a Opentype font that I would like to convert to SVG glyphs 
> AN> for use in a svg mapping application. 
>  
> AN> I only have a truetype to svg glyph converter (Batik).
>  
> Any features of OpenType that would not be understood by a truetype to
> svg converter would also be lost by an OpenType to Truetype converter.

    I don't know for certain but I guessed that this was one of
the OpenType formats that used Type1 font outlines instead of
TrueType outlines.  The Batik font converter will not handle those.

> Batik can be used to process Opentype fonts,

    OpenType fonts that still use TrueType outlines.

> although it will loose any information such as glyph substitution 
> tables that cannot be directly represented in an SVG font.

    Also true (I think ;)


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