[OpenFontLibrary] hinting workflow

[Dave Crossland]

On 25 June 2010 04:16, Schrijver <eric at authoritism.net> wrote:
>>
>> My opinion is based on PostScript hinting; for TrueType I am dependent
>> on ff's autoinstructor (which benefits from good PostScript hinting).
>
> So yes I was wondering about PostScript—are any open source fonts being distributed as PostScript? I see mainly TTF.
> Is that for compatibality reasons? I know postscript doesn’t play well with earlier Windows
> versions. What about distributing Opentype/CFF ?

Exactly. Type 1 fonts are pretty rare now. They are simply converted
to .OTF files so they work easily cross platform.

> Since you want OpenType features in many cases, I figured
> Opentype with truetype outlines would be the best format to deliver in, no?

IMHO yes.