On Sunday, July 20, 2003 2:21 PM, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > With SVG graphics containing character objects and drawing > > primitives > > I have no idea what this means. I used Fontographer. SVG is a W3C-promoted standard for Scalable Vector Graphics, based on a XML language, and allowing to describe vector graphics with 2D primitives, and it can be used to produce custom "fonts" of symbols, in a more appealing way than with bitmaps. A SVG graphic can be used at the source URL of an <img /> or <object /> element within HTML. Most vectorial graphic tool can generate or conert their proprietary format with SVG, used as a lingua franca for vector graphics interchanges (deprecating legacy proprietary formats like MacDraw and WMF, or the many other formats created by every drawing tool on the market). SVG graphics are now very popular and recognized by many publishing layout engines, and they are great for many websites that wish to compute and generate dynamic graphics (because these graphics can be updated online with its DOM tree, and easily generated from templates by XSLT processors). The palette of SVG primitives is rich and includes many presentation features (including colors, shading, transparency effects, regions combining operators). Recent versions of MS-Office use SVG within their new XML document format to embed graphics, or presentation effects, without the limitations of HTML. When I look at the Apple's Developer page, all what I see in the table of glyphs and in the description can be represented with a SVG graphic, including Unicode-encoded text primitives for the representative glyph chosen in their table. In a first approach, each defined PostScript name can be bound to a SVG filename, and a font can be made from it, by packing all these SVG in a ZIP archive, which can also contain description tables. Then any font format can be derived from this editable format.
