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Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
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…0 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
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 …0 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
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…1 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
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…0 -
Re: Setting Sidebearings
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…0
