El 5/14/09 4:02 PM, Robert Rohde escribió: > My personal pet peeve is that RSVG does not support the font embedding > part of the SVG specification. So we are limited to either using > fonts immediately available on the Mediawiki servers or downconverting > all text to shape outlines. The former can lead to unpredictable > renderings, while the later makes the text in SVG files more difficult > to edit. > > I realize that font embedding may have some intellectual property > concerns, though I have to imagine that similar concerns still exist > when a font is converted to shape outlines which seems to be the > current recommended practice. After all, font embedding is really > just an indirect way of specifying character shapes.
Wow, that's a new one to me... hadn't even realized there was a font embedding feature available. :) Definitely going on the list of issues that need overcoming, thanks! > In addition to the lack of embedded font support, Adobe, RSVG, and > Inkscape all seem to have different quirks regarding text alignments, > positioning, and path following. So even if one is using an available > font, one still may end up downconverting the text in order to get a > consistent rendering. Bluh... :( -- brion _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
