[mpeg-OTspec] Abstract for ISO/IEC 14496-28 CFR [1 Attachment]

[Levantovsky, Vladimir]

Thank you for the comments and suggested changes. The updated text of the abstract (that I will soon send to ISO secretariat) is attached.

Regards,
Vladimir


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Lunde [mailto:lunde at adobe.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 7:27 PM
> To: Levantovsky, Vladimir
> Cc: OTspec
> Subject: Re: [mpeg-OTspec] Abstract for ISO/IEC 14496-28 CFR [1
> Attachment]
> 
> Vladimir,
> 
> How about the following revision?
> 
> > Recent additions of new characters that represent most of the world's
> writing systems resulted in a significant increase of the Unicode
> character repertoire, which now encodes more than 100,000 characters.
> However, due to limitations of many bitfields, the existing ISO/IEC
> 14496-22 "Open Font Format" (OFF) specification allows a single font
> resource to support only up to 64K glyphs. In other words, there are
> significantly more characters in Unicode than the number of glyphs that
> can be included in a single font resource. The ISO/IEC 14496-28
> "Composite Font Representation" standard overcomes these limitations by
> standardizing an XML-based representation that allows linking of
> existing fonts resources -- not limited only to OFF -- into a single
> "Composite Font" that can be used as a virtual font.
> 
> Regards...
> 
> -- Ken
> 
> On Feb 6, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:
> 
> > [Attachment(s) from Levantovsky, Vladimir included below]
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Please see the attached draft text of the Abstract, which will be
> published on ISO website (both in ISO online catalog and ISO web
> store).
> >
> > The text must be finalized by the end of this week and submitted on
> Friday, Feb., 10 along with the text of the standard. Your comments are
> very much appreciated; in absence of any comments received I will
> assume that the abstract is approved and can be submitted as is.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Vladimir
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 

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