On 08/26/2011 12:13 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:32:07AM +0100, Dave Crossland wrote: >>>> What if http://fonts.debian.net/ could generate web font files (in at >>>> least the standard eot form, maybe in woff as well) and publish them >>>> under a stable URL? >>> >>> EOT is not standard, and is only supported by Internet Explorer.> >> >> It is 'standard' but not 'a standard' - it is widespread, and I >> believe support for it is necessary for useful web font serving. There >> is free software that implements most of the format, ttf2eot, but the >> MTX compression parts of EOT format are patent encumbered in the USA. > > I totally agree, but OP makes it sound like EOT is all what one needs > and WOFF is an extra, while it is the other way around now latest > versions of all major browsers now support WOFF, so if I'm to pick a > single format it would definitely be WOFF. Well, i did write that, but mainly out of ignorance. I don't really know that much about the underlying tech. Thank you for the corrections; let me clarify that i'd be happy to see something like this using a well-documented, unencumbered, publicly-specified format that is widely implemented in modern browsers :) WOFF does sound like the way to go. Do we have any tools in debian that can convert fonts to WOFF? --dkg
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