On Friday, February 25, 2005, 6:33:50 PM, Thomas wrote:
TD> Hi Chris, TD> 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. TD> I don't know for certain but I guessed that this was one of TD> the OpenType formats that used Type1 font outlines instead of TD> TrueType outlines. The Batik font converter will not handle those. Thats true. Although, since they use the same tabular TrueType structure, and since SVG can handle cubic beziers just as well as quadratic beziers, converting an OpenType font that uses Type1 glyphs to SVG is actually easier than converting it to TrueType because the glyph outline data can be directly used. It would be nice to see the Batik converted extended to handle this glyph form. Does anyone feel motivated to add the capability? >> Batik can be used to process Opentype fonts, TD> 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. TD> Also true (I think ;) By which I meant, certain types of substitution are representable in SVG fonts (ligatures, arabic forms, chinese/japanese glyph variants) and some are not (devanagari vowels, for example). Just as some sorts of language-specific font information are not representable in OpenType and need something like Graphite. -- Chris Lilley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
