Not to get caught in a loop on this, but it is a loader because it loads the data from the format into the datastructures of the typesetting system, those final datastructures are what actually do t… (View Post)
Losing access to your fonts is never an upgrade, especially if you are “upgrading” to the exact same font just in an OpenType container with a cmap table instead of one of the standard encodings or … (View Post)
For example, there is is FreeType2, a piece of software that Adobe actually pays people to help maintain (which renders text on Android/Chromebooks/other Linux and IIRC even parts of iOS), which stil… (View Post)
Yeah, I can imagine there is some ongoing burden re: checking for pfm files etc; but the software is already written, and every table in T1 has a direct equivalence to a present table in a current su… (View Post)
Side bearings are an inherently misleading concept. The bounding box of a contour can only guarantee your contours don't interfere, it says nothing about how they look. I ignore side bearings, and th… (View Post)