Hi all!
Designing typefaces I feel not enough of Adobe Glyph List (~4500
glyphs) to naming new characters so I decided to create my own (>9000
glyphs).
This file is the result.
Every one can use it without problems.
Improvements and suggestions are very welcome.
Thanks!
Comments
https://github.com/schriftgestalt/GlyphsInfo
It contains 28000 entires.
I recognize that the workflows creating PDFs that have that problem are not common, but I don't see a need to create the risk. Yes, it only happens when either the PDF creation software/workflow is exceptionally stupid, and/or the PDF is created by first printing a PS file to disk and then creating the PDF from that, without the PDF creator accessing the original font.
So, no, it is not true to say “everyone can use it without problems.” Just not information-licensing problems.
How to remedy? Do you have suggestions?
FontLab VI uses this approach as well.
Fabrizio: there is no remedy in the sense that if you want to maximize compatibility with ancient standards, that’s what you have to do. It isn’t something Adobe can fix by adding to AGL because everyone wants to be compatible with old standards.
Glyph mapping systems where you use one set of names for “working” names and another for final output are not too difficult to create, and mostly work well. The biggest catch I have noticed so far is with OpenType code that uses (working) glyph names, for the portability of that code.... So there are good reasons to want to standardize working glyph names, too. Not just final output names.