Re: Progress on authoring tool testing

On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:55:50 PM, Jonathan wrote:

JK> On 5 Oct 2011, at 14:24, Chris Lilley wrote:

>> * FontSquirrel
>> http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
>> FontSquirrel says that "OTF fonts are now converted to TTF for better rendering on Windows." which could be a problem. 

JK> While this may be a useful service for some users, it doesn't
JK> qualify as a fully-conforming WOFF generator. There's no way it
JK> can satisfy "The result of creating a WOFF file and then decoding
JK> this to regenerate an sfnt font MUST result in a final font that
JK> is bitwise-identical to the well-formed input font" for
JK> OpenType/CFF input if it's converting CFF to TT glyphs, for example.


I agree, and will contact the author to see if this conversion can be  made optional.





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 Chris Lilley   Technical Director, Interaction Domain                 
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
 Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups

Received on Wednesday, 5 October 2011 14:32:38 UTC