[mpeg-OTspec] Re: Apple Spliced Font Format

[David Lemon]

At 9:30 -0700 4/3/10, James Cloos wrote:
>...
>And then there is the issue that fonts are occasionally updated without
>changing their version field.

Of course that's a serious failure on the font developer's part. Any 
change to a font that affects the GIDs, line lengths or glyph shapes 
should always incur an increased version number. While making things 
robust enough to handle badly-made fonts is not a bad idea, I'm not 
sure how far a spec (or implementation) should go to handle such 
quirks.
- thanks,
-- 
David Lemon
Sr Manager, Type Development
Adobe Systems, Inc.

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lemon at adobe.com