On Tuesday, July 24, 2007, 12:34:49 AM, Ted wrote:
TG> On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 18:58 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote:
You are right that there is no support for swash and outline variants; a new attribute in an inkscape namespace that is like font-variant but also allows for swash and outline is exactly the right way to do this.
TG> Chris,
TG> A couple of questions:
TG> - Do you know if the SVG working group is going to pick this up at some TG> point? Or is it a little too pedantic for web stuff?
It might, but it would need to coordinate with the CSS and the XSL WGs. CSS WG in particular is already over burdened with specs that are not finished; I doubt they want to take more work on.
I think there could be interest for XSL to look at it, though.
TG> - Do you know if anyone at Adobe is still working on SVG?
They have gone quiet; this seemed to coincide with their takeover by/of Macromedia and focussing on Flash.
Their authoring products continue to export and import SVG; I don't have access to CS3 so don't know if this has continued to improve.
TG> It'd be nice TG> if they could be keyed into this conversation -- interchange would be TG> ideal even if we implement it slightly differently internally.
TG> Corel and others too.
The latest release of Corel Draw (the X3 suite) *did* have improvements in SVG export, so seems to be under active development.
TG> I don't think we can entirely pull the data out TG> of the font name
Its a hard problem in general to get reliable metadata out of the font name. You need to read the individual bits of data from the font files.
TG> if everyone else is putting it in. We can just be TG> "more clear" in our own files.
TG> --Ted