Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] location of woff files

[Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalinger@sil.org>]

On 04/06/2017 07:54 PM, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 06.04.2017, 18:13 +0200 schrieb Nicolas Spalinger:
>> How about, instead of expecting every app to write up a filter and
>> blacklist system, we don't put new formats that are not intended to
>> be desktop formats into their own distinct FHS folder? Developers and
>> web apps who want/need them can symlink them from there directly?
> 
> I don't know why you insist on equating fontconfig with desktop usage? 
> 
> There exist many applications which use fontconfig but are in no way
> restricted to desktop usage, e.g. cups-filter's texttopdf filter or 
> XeTeX.


Hi Fabian, 

I'm interested in knowing more about fontconfig-using server apps. 

Do you have use-cases and specific examples? A few of the many applications you refer to?

How many desktop apps do you know that support WOFF? 


Thanks, 

-- 
Nicolas