Re: Question on DSIG and head flag 11

Thanks for reminding me, Ken.
It was actually me who sent that pull request, under my github nickname...
:)
https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko/commit/59a5bbc85adad8398c8401676b319d37b9f06c16


On 29 June 2015 at 17:35, Ken Lunde <lunde@adobe.com> wrote:

> Cosimo Lupo,
>
> Examples of fonts whose tables are not aligned to four-byte boundaries are
> the OpenType/CFF Collections (OTCs) in Versions 1.000 and 1.001 of Source
> Han Sans (and, by extension, Noto Sans CJK). The AFDKO otf2otc script
> wasn't doing this, though the tables in the source OpenType/CFF fonts were
> aligned to four-byte boundaries. Anyway, the otf2otc was adjusted in early
> March, and Version 1.002 and beyond (Version 1.004) do not have this issue
> (though it didn't seem to matter).
>
> Regards...
>
> -- Ken
>
> > On Jun 29, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Cosimo Lupo <cosimo.lupo@daltonmaag.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry about that. I have yet to see an OpenType font with table offsets
> which are not long-aligned. My experience with fonts is relatively short,
> so perhaps I tend to take too literally statements like this one from the
> OT spec:
> >
> > > the length of a table must be a multiple of four bytes. In fact, a
> font is not considered structurally proper without the correct padding. All
> tables must begin on four byte boundries, and any remaining space between
> tables is padded with zeros.
> >
> > Never mind then. Apologies for raising this again.
> >
> > C.
>
>


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