[OpenType] TrueType-flavored ".otf"

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 13-01-15 11:31 AM, Thomas Phinney wrote:

> As a wise programmer once told me, "if it hasn't been tested, it doesn't
> work." Given that the fonts do not naturally appear in the wild, the only
> way it would get tested in every app would be if every app developer goes
> out of their way to rename some TTFs. They would have to be specifically
> aware of this issue and test it.

That's a nice quote.  But lets not over-exaggerate it.

The truth is, much code reading fonts doesn't care about the file extension.
I'm guessing that most programmers on the list can attest to this.


> I am certain that outside of the professional graphics and publishing
> community, very few app developers have even heard of this issue,

That's plain wrong.  You left out the group that is most exposed to this
issue: font creation and rendering people!  Again, the truth is, not much
anyone other than the font create / rendering people needs to deal with this.
 It's not a big deal at all.  I'll buy an evening's rounds of beer for whoever
finds an app is broken in this way.


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behdad
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