Re: text scaling
Gavin Nicol ([email protected])
Tue, 6 Jun 1995 23:01:28 -0400
>If you have a coded character set that understands Cherokee, etc, Gavin's
>proposal handles it. But let's remember: If I specify a family type of
>"Cherokee" (if such a thing exists) when you download this file you had
>better have a font with the same name on your system or you will see
>nothing. Trying to come up with a scheme of downloading such a font given
>a URL would be problematic due to copyright issues.
So make some PDS ones avilable then (and it should be the content
providers' responsibility to also make fonts available). I should note
that one can fake a coded character set by just specifying a range of
codes in some arbitrary coded character set, and using those, in
combination with a font which provides different glyph images. This is
cheating, I know...
>I think we will find that, in practice, glyphs as obscure as hieroglyphics
>will be added to files as polygonal objects because authors will assume
>very few people have hieroglyphic outline fonts lying around.
I think you'd find it much easier for them to make them available of a
font server somewhere (or perhaps in the central object
repository). That way, it the content dies, the objects do not.