- From: Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:47:35 +1100
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- CC: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Hi John,
> The current draft requires support for looking up individual faces via
> the fullname with Postscript name look optional for those platforms that
> support it. As Thomas Phinney and others pointed out, the fullname for
> .otf fonts is different across platforms, it's equivalent to the
> Postscript name under Windows but takes the family + style name form
> under Mac OS X (although FontBook actually shows the Postscript name as
> the fullname instead of the fullname in the underlying font data!).
I have to say that I don't like this at all :)
Is the use case for this feature that someone might want to map to a
font with different attributes? For example, they might want to do this:
@font-face {
font-family: MySansSerif;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
src: local("Helvetica-Bold")
}
and thus map normal MySansSerif to bold Helvetica? Prince can't do this,
but no one has ever asked for it either.
Best regards,
Michael
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Received on Tuesday, 3 March 2009 09:48:27 UTC