SVG font support broken since last chrome update

[Gamadril]

today I updated my chrome for OSX to version 38.0.2125.101. Now all my unicode characters from a custom svg font are not shown properly. truetype and woff are still working, svg not any more.

Any idea why?

[PhistucK]

Is this related specifically to your Chrome application, or are you talking about regular web pages?

Anyway, this is an intended change, starting with Chrome 38. SVG fonts are only supported on Windows systems, older than Windows 7, due to their poor font rendering.

You should be able to convert the SVG font to WOFF and your fonts should look good.

Note that only Chrome and Safari supported SVG fonts (and I think I read somewhere that they are contemplating dropping support as well, but I might be mistaken).

It was announce on the Chrome 38 beta blog post (one of the last lines) -

http://blog.chromium.org/2014/08/chrome-38-beta-new-primitives-for-next.html

☆PhistucK

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Gamadril <gamadr...@gmail.com> wrote:

today I updated my chrome for OSX to version 38.0.2125.101. Now all my unicode characters from a custom svg font are not shown properly. truetype and woff are still working, svg not any more.

Any idea why?

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[Gamadril]

thanks for the clarification, for some reason my woff font generated by fontello.com looks worse than svg. All my font-icons look very sharp with svg, woff versions not... 

[PhistucK]

It looks like a fontello issue, unfortunately. :(

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[Ufuk Cemen]

sorry , here is my question :

"Are you guys able to use external fonts for Chrome Packaged app ? Could you point me to a solid example ? I have tried numerous things and I wasn't able to do so. "

[PhistucK]

Actually, this is off topic for this thread, start a new thread for this.

(Sorry for not mentioning this earlier)

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[PhistucK]

Oh, that is pretty awesome! That could probably provide a good way to convert SVG fonts not only on the fly (someone could take the code and implement it as a free service, like Font Squirrel) and everyone could convert and be done with it. Exciting.

☆PhistucK

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Stephen Chenney <sche...@chromium.org> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 6:15 AM, PhistucK <phis...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is this related specifically to your Chrome application, or are you talking about regular web pages?

Anyway, this is an intended change, starting with Chrome 38. SVG fonts are only supported on Windows systems, older than Windows 7, due to their poor font rendering.

You should be able to convert the SVG font to WOFF and your fonts should look good.

Note that only Chrome and Safari supported SVG fonts (and I think I read somewhere that they are contemplating dropping support as well, but I might be mistaken).

WebKit is implementing a built-in SVG->WOFF converter, I believe, so they can remove the SVG font code path. Also, the next iteration of the SVG spec removes SVG fonts.

[PhistucK]

Same thing, still helpful! Cool.

☆PhistucK

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Stephen Chenney <sche...@chromium.org> wrote:

I was slightly wrong. WebKit is converting SVG to OTF. Look for WebKit bugs with the [SVG -> OTF Converter] title tag.

Stephen.