RE: EOT-Lite File Format

>From: John Hudson [mailto:tiro@tiro.com]


>
>But that implies that it may treat an EOT font as if it were EOTL, if
>TTEMBED_TTCOMPRESSED and TTEMBED_XORENCRYPTDATA flags check out, and
>that seems to me problematic if it means that a non-nil rootstring with
>meaningful content relative to that EOT font -- and perhaps to the
>license for that EOT font -- is ignored. The whole point of the EOTL
>format is to make a new format that is not burdened by rootstrings, not
>to treat all existing old-format EOT fonts with rootstrings as if they
>were EOTL.
>

Rootstrings are used to restrict the use of the font to the current origin.
Which is what Firefox already does by default.