I want to be able to create documents that incorporate a wide variety of fonts readable by computers that don’t have the fonts resident. Is this something XML can do?
choster
7:10 pm on Feb 22, 2006 (gmt 0)
XML is a language for describing information. So you could perhaps define glyphs in SVG (an XML language), then write a processor that will take your XSL-FO formatted source documents and font definitions and render a complete product precisely across machines.
But why would you ever want to do this, when you can embed or encapsulate ordinary binary font definitions into PostScript or PDF output with XSL-FO or older languages like TeX?
