Re: [Devel] SVG & Fonts [was FreeType gzip support completed]

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 7:29 PM +0300 11/20/02, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> |  My opinion is that this will be OpenType/CFF, or CEF (Compact Embedded
> |  Fonts), a variation of it that Adobe already uses in its SVG Viewer.
>
> I doubt that Adobe has _any_ power nowdays.

        Depends on what market you are looking at...

	In the publishing market, Adobe is (and will remain 
indefinitely) the leader in technology and products.   Any doing 
serious publishing are using Type 1 fonts (as much as I scream and 
yell at them about how much better OpenType is!) with one or more 
Adobe software application on either Mac OS or Windows.


> So, wether we like it or not - default font format would be format choosen by
> Microsoft. Which, I suppose, would be TrueType (2nd order) with 
> OpenType tables.

	I agree with David that the format of the future is OpenType 
- most likely starting as TrueType but with extended tables.   Both 
Microsoft and Apple are shipping their standard OS fonts in this 
format...

	Adobe is also only doing OpenType fonts now, but starting 
from their Type 1's and then adding the new tables...


Leonard
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