Hi, Geoffrey-
| The files section of this group and another website use CE or
| CEF files for examples without any explanation of what format
| this is.
CEF (Compact Embedded Font) is a font format Adobe uses in its SVG viewer.
Though it was intended to be an open specification, I'm not sure it was ever
published, and it doesn't seem to have caught on in a big way. The CEF
format is based on OpenType. A CEF consists of an sfnt ("spline font", an
outline font like OpenType, TrueType, or PostScript Type1) file with an
embedded Unicode cmap (character mapping) and CFF table (PostScript font
Compact Font Format table).
Adobe Illustrator uses CEF to embed fonts in its SVG output, which it why
you'll see it around. The advantages of CEF over an SVG Font are its small
size, and the fact that it supports hinting. I personally prefer SVG Fonts,
as they are more easily generated (they are XML) and you know which glyphs
are present, so it's much easier to reuse. With CEF, you only know what
glyphs are present by trial and error. I guess Adobe uses it to protect its
fonts.
| It seems to be a compressed format of some sort, but what in
| the heck is it? I have not heard of this before, and I'm far
| from a newbie.
I don't think it's compressed so much as encrypted. Probably both, really.
| Since it is so non-standard from zip, gzip, stuffit, and so
| on why isn't a link provided for the decompressing utility?
See above. ;)
Regards-
Doug
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