[Freetype] Layout stuff (was Re: PANOSE, and other ways to map fonts)

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 07:13 PM 11/16/2001 +0000, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> IMO PostScript is not right solution here - as it's even more bloated.
>   SVG (inspired by Adobe and Kodak)?  not sure as well ;-))

        PostScript, PDF and SVG are all the wrong approaches since they 
are "fixed layout" architectures, as opposed to a CSS3 (HTML/XML/XSL) 
approach were reflow and such are present.

        Of course, once you laid out the elements on a "page", conversion 
to PS/PDF/SVG would be easy and logical.

        Oh, and SVG started out as a way to combine Adobe's PGML and 
Microsoft's VML into a single W3C standard.  It has evolved GREATLY since then.


> I mean, some parts of SVG are really nice (and SVG-based Icons are floating
> around me  :-),

        Who uses SVG-based icons?  I know that Nautilus CAN use them, but 
that most of those in normal usage are not.


> in the mean time, I found some articles that Microsoft was not willing to
> release even IE6 separatly from WinXP.

        That is not true!  I can install IE6 on my Win2K box just fine...


LDR