Re: TrueTypeFont-Bug!

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From: Blake Coverett
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 00:02

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In article <1993Jan8.003555.4939@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols) writes:
>I believe I was the one who posted about this same problem several
>months ago.  As you can read in the followup that I just posted, yes,
>the fonts I have were indeed converted from fonts generated by Altsys
>Fontographer.  It's a little difficult to examine the fonts to see if
>they meet Apple specifications, since the specifications are
>PROPRIETARY and obtainable only under license.

Huh?  This is one of the reasons Microsoft and Apple chose TrueType over
Type-1, an open standard.

All of the specs are on ftp.uu.net in /vendor/microsoft/TrueType-Info.
In particular have a look at ttspec[1-3].zip for WFW formatted docs
or tt-help.zip for a WinHelp version.  You'll also find ttfdump.zip
which will let you analyze TT fonts and ttfparse.zip which includes
C source for parsing TTF files.  What more could anyone ask for?

>
>TrueType sucks!
>

Tsk, tsk, name calling won't get you anywhere.

-Blake
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From: blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett)
Subject: Re: TrueTypeFont-Bug!
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