[MPEG-OTSPEC] Memory usage in post table

Laurence Penney lorp at lorp.org
Mon Sep 14 16:56:47 CEST 2020


It could be worth checking fonts that are created on the fly by 10,000 different printer drivers…

- L

> On 14 Sep 2020, at 15:09, Simon Cozens <simon at simon-cozens.org> wrote:
> 
> I just checked every font file on my system, and have not been able to find a single one which has a non-zero value for the minMemType42, maxMemType42, minMemType1, or maxMemType1 fields in the post table. (I thought I found one - but it turned out to be a bug in my parser!)
> 
> Maybe there were some years ago when PostScript printers had little memory, but I'm not sure there are now.
> 
> Is there any reason not to deprecate those four fields?
> 
> S
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