- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:54:53 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
John Hudson wrote: > > Gentium won't work in IE8/Win 7 due to a regression bug in the > > t2embed library; as part of a Windows security patch the decision > > was made to not load fonts with more than 5K in a name table record, > > which includes fonts like Gentium... > > And a lot of other fonts. Pretty much any font that contains a license > text in the OT name table, as permitted by the OT specification, is > going to exceed this limit. It isn't required to put the license text > in the name table (and a license URL is possible in addition to or > instead of the full text), but quite a significant number of font > developers do this. Right, I can't see this fix sticking since it will cause all sorts of regression bugs (i.e. embedded documents suddenly not rendering the correct font). Maybe Microsoft can comment here?
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