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Re: [ft-devel] OT-SVG: Some issues I have run into with the previous des
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft-devel] OT-SVG: Some issues I have run into with the previous design decisions |
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Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:25:35 +0200 (CEST) |
> Just one question, I grepped the source code of the current master
> to see where else `other' field was being used. It turns out that
> it is used only once inside the function `cff_compute_max_advance'
> which is currently not in use with the comment, "unused until we
> support pure CFF fonts". Can you help me understand what a pure CFF
> fonts is? I want to make sure nothing conflicts since I will be
> using `other' field for SVG data.
A `pure CFF' is a font resource that is not put into an SFNT or
PostScript wrapper; see `docs/formats.txt' for an overview. You will
sometimes find that in PDFs.
Werner