On 7/10/07, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote: > Has anyone looked into embedding fonts in SVG files? That might > alleviate some of the installation problems that were recently mentioned > on the matplotlib-users list. > > The relevant spec: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/fonts.html > > If there are no plans under way, I may have a crack at it, since I'm > sort of on an "embedding fonts" kick lately anyway... ;) It's definitely come up before. Paul Barret may have had a look at it. I'm not sure why we ended up not doing it. You can search the archives if you are interested. If it isn't too hard, and major SVG renderers support it, it seems like a great idea. JDH