On 7/30/14 10:32 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
>Hi, > >> My main contacts are on vacation. It isn't clear that they will change >> the current situation. > >IMO a magnet for bad PR but Adobe seem good at that :-) It's not only >Flex that's going to be effected by this. > >Assuming they won't change it, can we get a name and password to access? Doubt it, but how would that help? > >> Really, this should serve as impetus for us to get out having >>dependencies on Adobe. > >How? I can't see anyone rewriting those jars given the specialised >knowledge and time and effect they would they require. Any takers? Well, I'm told that "all" we really need is a way to convert TTF splines to CFF splines and then read a TTF file and output a CFF blob. There's a good chance that there is more to those libraries that Flex is actually using. > >So hosting elsewhere? I'm not sure we can distribute those files >elsewhere without a license. It's probably OK that you put them up here >[1] (given it's owned by Adobe) but don't we have exactly the same issue >with that? ie Adobe may pull the plug there with no notice. Also not a >big issue but the rest of the PMC don't have access to that site. And that's why we need to write our own embedded font library. Time is ticking on the 5-year commit from Adobe. If I am successful in creating a separate business to distribute this stuff then that should take some of the pressure off. But really, we should find a way to get rid of that last dependency. -Alex
