[swfmill] "ERROR: cubic beziers in fonts are not yet implemented." - why? :-)

[armencho at gmail.com]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 14:54, Daniel Cassidy <mail at danielcassidy.me.uk> wrote:
> Flash doesn’t support cubic béziers natively. The SVG import works
> around this by approximating cubic béziers with a series of quadratic
> béziers, but I would hazard a guess that there is no such
> approximation implemented for font importing. I’ll file a bug on
> Launchpad to implement this but don’t hold your breath.
>
>
>> Anything I can do?
>
> You could submit a patch :).
>
> Alternatively, use FontForge to convert the font to TrueType before
> importing it. This will convert all the cubic béziers to quadratic
> approximations.

Ok, thanks, that explains it.

Also I have a somewhat unrelated question - is there some aggregated
place for documentation being compiled for swfmill? I am specifically
interested in the non-simple XSLT transform. Or is my best bet the
source code?