On 3/28/12 5:31 AM, "olegsivo...@gmail.com" <olegsivo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes Martin, I understood the legal problem. I was just wondering what is > particular about the code that it cannot be replaced by other (modified) > font managers. As you probably know, there are 4 managers currently in SDK > which can encode fonts using somewhat different techniques, but only one > can encode them in a way they fit for the use with the FTE classes. This > is, I assume, the one Alex is talking about. So my question was rather: > > what if we take on of the existing managers and modify it so it will > generate DefineFont4 tags - how much of an effort will it require? Or maybe > the technology itself is patented (I doubt this very much... but you never > know)? > I'm still trying to make sure I understand both the technical and legal issues. I see specs for CFF and DefineFont4, but there are rumors that the conversion is currently done via proprietary algorithms. If we (Apache Flex) just write our own, there may be a quality issue. -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
