CSA Preface
Standards development within the Information Technology sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the Canadian Advisory Committee (CAC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC. Also, as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Canada participates in the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU-T).
This Technical Report was reviewed by the CSA TCIT under the jurisdiction of the Strategic Steering Committee on Information Technology and deemed acceptable for use in Canada. (A committee membership list is available on request from the CSA Project Manager.) From time to time, ISO/IEC may publish addenda, corrigenda, etc. The CSA TCIT will review these documents for approval and publication. For a listing, refer to the CSA Information Products catalogue or CSA Info Update or contact a CSA Sales representative. This Technical Report has been formally approved, without modification, by the Technical Committee and has been approved as a National Standard of Canada by the Standards Council of Canada.
Scope
This Technical Report provides the access facilities which can be used for creation, distribution, management, and use of font resources conforming to the architecture of ISO/IEC 9541.
This Technical Report is intended to be used in a variety of configurations meeting a variety of connectivity needs, including communication protocols, application programming interfaces, and application services.
This Technical Report defines an abstract interface to the font access facilities.
This Technical Report will not specify the concrete syntax for a language binding of font service facilities, nor the concrete protocol used to communicate between the systems that provides or uses the font service facilities.
This Technical Report is intended for use in a wide variety of document processing environments, including:
- authoring;
- formatting and page layout;
- printing and display services;
- electronic publishing via removable media and/or information network.
