Abstract Content that can be delivered to various clients connected to the Inte rnet, or Cable and Satellite communication networks is a crucial ingredie nt for the advancement of on-line communications.
Text is an integral pa rt of the pages being viewed.
The proper rendering of high-quality text and the font subsystems used are important system design considerations. Font management and rendering solutions to be part of the W3C recommen dation must be able to be implemented in a static or dynamic process. Fo r example, a set of fonts may exist in ROM in a set-top box and rendered on demand by Internet or Interactive Television applications executing wi thin the set top box. The W3C font format will also be required to funct ion on the head-end server of the network in several ways. First the con tent provider may render or rasterize the content in a proxy server and p roduce an MPEG, or PNG data stream that is broadcast down to the set top box.