yes, SVG fonts would be useful for the more exotic fonts. Fontforge is a free unix/macosx tool to convert various font-formats, including SVG fonts.
Opera, Batik and Webkit support external SVG fonts defined in an external file. The Adobe SVG viewer 3 only supports internal SVG fonts, Firefox doesn't support SVG fonts at all, currently. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "Frank Bruder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should put the animateTransform element behind the tspan. I don't > know about the current version, but some versions of Firefox didn't > display text, when something else than <tspan>, or <a> elements was > in the <text> element before the text. It is allowed, though, and > does work in other user agents. > > The font-family property identifes a font by its display name, which > is not necessarily identical to the filename of the font. You have to > look at by what name the font is presented in the selection box when > you edit a document in a word processor, or any application that > allows you to select fonts. Destroy sound like it could be the full > display name, but maybe it's not. > > Still, this would only work when the font is installed on your > system. If you use the document locally, or for offline rendering, > that's fine, but it wouldn't work for people who view the document > online, unless they also installed the font. To make SVG viewers use > the font when it's not installed, you could use CSS webfonts to > specify the location of the font file, but I think currently that's > only implemented in webkit. > > A solution which also works in Opera and the Adobe SVG Viewer (but > not in firefox), is to use an embedded SVG font. The Apache Batik > toolkit comes with a font converter which can make SVG fonts from > True Type Fonts. I have recently written a little how-to on SVG fonts: > http://frankbruder.fr.ohost.de/fonts/svgfontshowto_en.xhtml > > Regards > Frank > > --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "Hago Ziegler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to use a TTF font, called Destroy.ttf. > > I don`t succeed embedding it. > > How do I have to do it? > > > > First I tried this simple script: > > .................. > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> > > > > <svg > > xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; > > xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; > > version="1.0" > > width="1600" > > height="1200" > > id="svg1"> > > <g transform="translate(350,230)"> > > <text x="0" y="0" transform="rotate(-30)" id="text2383" > > style="font-size:72px;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;font- > family:Destroy;"> > > <animateTransform attributeName="transform" > > attributeType="XML" type="rotate" from="-30" to="0" > > begin="1s" dur="5s" fill="freeze"/> > > <tspan>Hagos chaos</tspan> > > </text> > > </g> > > </svg> > > ............... > > > > Regards, Hago > > > ------------------------------------ ----- 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
