[Fontconfig] TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

Vasile Gaburici vgaburici at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 12:45:49 PDT 2008


Are you sure this is a valid TTC? I thought it can contain only
TrueType fonts (possibly with OpenType features).

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 10:20 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 14:06 +0900, mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote:
>> >
>> > What is the advantage to pack TrueType and CFF OpenType?
>> > I guess, the shareable contents are limited as TTC-packed
>> > CFF OpenType, so, such request comes from the people looking
>> > for an easy archiver of font files.
>>
>> Yes, I was just meaning having one file for a face.
>
> I think a TTC of TT+CFF is going to be seriously evil. But I won't stand
> in the way of the courageous fool that will try to inject one in the
> distribution.
>
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