Re: Fonts in SVG output

Benjamin Esham Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:38:38 -0700

John Mandereau wrote:

Currently, it's not a good idea to include SVG files generated by

LilyPond in web pages on the Internet, because you have to make sure OTF

fonts -- from the LilyPond version used to generate the SVG -- are
installed on the (e.g. in ~/.fonts).  SVG files generated by LilyPond

are rather to be processed on a server or a machine building a web site,

where SVGs are cnoverted to PNGs -- that's what we do on lilypond.org
for language-dependent pictures, see
http://lilypond.org/web/switch/howto for example.

I use Inkscape's "convert text to paths" feature to ensure that the end-user need not have the LilyPond fonts installed. (That will work like I think it does, right?)


Cheers,
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