Re: DSIG and other issues

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Levantovsky, Vladimir <
Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com> wrote:

> Thank you Sergey, this is definitely a good news!
>

+1, thank you Sergey!

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergey Malkin [mailto:sergeym@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 11:52 AM
> To: Levantovsky, Vladimir; Jonathan Kew; David Kuettel
> Cc: Behdad Esfahbod; Chris Lilley; w3c-webfonts-wg (
> public-webfonts-wg@w3.org)
> Subject: RE: DSIG and other issues
>
> _I_ am not aware of any Microsoft code that is affected by presence or
> absence of DSIG, except decision what icon is presented to user in fonts
> folder. We don't also require or verify validity of DSIG in system APIs or
> applications. DWrite functionality is definitely not affected by DSIG.
>
> There were other reasons (not related to DSIG) for layout features or
> other functionality that should apply to any OpenType font, not working for
> CFF fonts in some applications. These problems were caused by other
> reasons, like details of GDI APIs dealing with non-TTF fonts differently
> for compatibility reasons. But this code in applications is fixed now, as I
> understand.
>
> Thanks,
> Sergey
>
>