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- From: blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett)
- Subject: Re: TrueTypeFont-Bug!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan09.000215.12630@microsoft.com>
- Date: 09 Jan 93 00:02:15 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Canada Inc.
- References: <1ce6da9b@p7.f7521.n241.z2.fidonet.org> <jcmorris.726422810@mwunix> <1993Jan8.003555.4939@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1993Jan8.003555.4939@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols) writes:
- >I believe I was the one who posted about this same problem several
- >months ago. As you can read in the followup that I just posted, yes,
- >the fonts I have were indeed converted from fonts generated by Altsys
- >Fontographer. It's a little difficult to examine the fonts to see if
- >they meet Apple specifications, since the specifications are
- >PROPRIETARY and obtainable only under license.
-
- Huh? This is one of the reasons Microsoft and Apple chose TrueType over
- Type-1, an open standard.
-
- All of the specs are on ftp.uu.net in /vendor/microsoft/TrueType-Info.
- In particular have a look at ttspec[1-3].zip for WFW formatted docs
- or tt-help.zip for a WinHelp version. You'll also find ttfdump.zip
- which will let you analyze TT fonts and ttfparse.zip which includes
- C source for parsing TTF files. What more could anyone ask for?
-
- >
- >TrueType sucks!
- >
-
- Tsk, tsk, name calling won't get you anywhere.
-
- -Blake
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