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From: Om <bigosmallm@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:41:21 -0700
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Subject: Re: CFF Font Embedding (was Re: Here Comes MXMLC!)
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com> wrote:

>
> On 3/28/12 5:31 AM, "olegsivokon@gmail.com" <olegsivokon@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.
>
>
Does Falcon come with support for CFF Fonts?  When it is open-sourced, will
it be gimped in the same way when it comes to fonts?

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