Re: [PATCH] Improvements for the SVG backend

[Patrick McCarty]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Graham
Percival<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Yes.  :-)

-Patrick