[OpenType] Windows 8.1 color fonts

[Sairus Patel]

> SVG is so complex that a full implementation doesn't exist on many
>platforms

That's why subsets and "referencing modes" of SVG have been defined
(examples: SVG Tiny; and SVG's "secure animation mode" that prohibits
scripting and external links). Defining new subsets of SVG is something
the SVG spec folks can consider as well, if that's what's needed for SVG
to be integrated/referenced (or used at all).

The alternative, for the OT/OFF community to incrementally invent a new
graphics language/format and to write implementations thereof, that can
capture the richness that many want to be able to express in fonts,
including gradients and animation, is certainly a possibility, but one
that comes with daunting costs.

I don't mean to downplay the work needed to dispatch a glyph description
to an SVG renderer, but I do want to emphasize that there are very real
benefits of using an existing W3C spec (even if, initially, layers or
subsets of the spec have to be defined).

Sairus


-----Original Message-----
From: "Behdad org>" <behdad at behdad.org>
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Date: Friday, June 28, 2013 11:04 AM
To: "listmaster at indx.co.uk" <listmaster at indx.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [OpenType] Windows 8.1 color fonts

>Message from OpenType list:
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>On 13-06-27 10:03 PM, Sairus Patel wrote:
>> The approach has been: If we're going to do something this new in
>>OF/OTT,
>> let's do with a rich, already existing graphics model so that
>> implementations don't have to roll their own.
>
>Understood.  But that's the biggest problem with that approach: SVG is so
>complex that a full implementation doesn't exist on many platforms and
>frameworks, let alone pushing it down to the font rasterizer layer...
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