Re: [PATCH] Improvements for the SVG backend

[Graham Percival]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:46:40PM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Graham
> Percival<address@hidden> wrote:
> > You're fine, Patrick.  Carl hasn't read AU 3.2.2, so I was making
> > a cheeky comment.  You may recall that a similar thing happened
> > recently with the CG.  ;)
> 
> As a side note, I eventually want to get rid of the SVG font embedding
> altogether, and convert the glyphs to paths on-the-fly.  Then we
> wouldn't need the font installation instructions at all.
> 
> If this happens, the size of the example SVG I posted at the top of
> the thread would be reduced to about 4KB in size (instead of 158KB).

Would that also make it visible in firefox without requiring
viewers to manually install fonts?  That would be *incredibly*
cool.

Cheers,
- Graham