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Re: OVERLAP_SIMPLE or OVERLAP_COMPOUND
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Alexei Podtelezhnikov |
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Re: OVERLAP_SIMPLE or OVERLAP_COMPOUND |
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Tue, 28 Jul 2020 08:42:08 -0400 |
> Hm. Can't really say, but I have recently encountered a bug in InDesign which
> subsets a VF for embedding into a document and turns it into a static font...
> without removing overlaps or setting the overlap flags, leading to even-odd
> rendering errors in macOS Preview. So I plan on modifying the usual font
> pipeline to indiscriminately enable these flags for VFs... at some point,
> unless someone stops me. So, yeah.
I found that fonts in Mac OS 9 and above diligently flag overlaps, for
example, in the Euro symbol in Times.dfont. So go for it!
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Alexei A. Podtelezhnikov, PhD