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

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