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

[Ken Lunde]

Vladimir,

One more minor change to make to the abstract: change the second word of the paragraph from "addition" to "additions."

Regards...

-- Ken

On Feb 8, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:

> [Attachment(s) from Levantovsky, Vladimir included below]
> 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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