RE: WOFF and padding at the end of the font file

On Tuesday, June 08, 2010 8:26 PM Christopher Slye wrote:
> 
> On Jun 8, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Tal Leming wrote:
> 
> > For what it is worth, a couple of years ago a popular font manager
> flagged fonts that had a final table that was *not* padded to a four-
> byte boundary as corrupt. As a result, I am 100% certain that fonts
> with this padding are out there.
> 
> All of Adobe's fonts are padded to a 4 byte boundary. (And I haven't
> actually confirmed, but from this I assume that Adobe's FDK does this
> consistently.)
> 

I tested a number of MTI fonts and all of them were padded to 4 byte boundary. I would say that we should consider this to be the norm although there are fonts out there that do not have this last table padding.

Vlad

Received on Wednesday, 9 June 2010 13:57:10 UTC