<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Well, except that I'd substitute "should" for "must" in #2. We don't want people to start flagging fonts as invalid if they have "invalid" names, because too many fonts do that. (In particular, Apple fonts tend to use ".null" for the name of GID 1.)<div><br></div><div>If I'm reading the first note correctly, it means, "Don't use formats 1 or 2.5," but I could be wrong.<br><div><br><div><div>On 2013年7月2日, at 下午5:02, Bob Hallissy <<a href="mailto:bobh528@yahoo.com">bobh528@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br><br>So....<br><ul><li>No one else knows what the first NOTE means, and</li><li>Everyone likes my proposed wording for the second NOTE.</li></ul>??<br>Bob<br><br><div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-06-28 at 19:16 Bob Hallissy wrote:<br></div><blockquote cite="mid:51CE2766.8080103@yahoo.com" type="cite" style="border-left-width: 2px !important; border-left-style: solid !important; border-left-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-right-width: 2px !important; border-right-style: solid !important; border-right-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; padding: 0px 15px; margin: 8px 2px; ">In Section 7 Recommendations for OFF fonts there are these notes regarding the 'post' table:<br><br><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-width: 2px !important; border-left-style: solid !important; border-left-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-right-width: 2px !important; border-right-style: solid !important; border-right-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; padding: 0px 15px; margin: 8px 2px; "><p class="Note" style="clear: both; padding: 15px 0px 3px; overflow: hidden; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 10.5pt; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><big>NOTE<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Names for all glyphs must be supplied as it cannot be assumed that all Windows platforms will support the default names supplied on the Macintosh.<o:p></o:p></big></p><big></big><p class="Note" style="clear: both; padding: 15px 0px 3px; overflow: hidden; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 10.5pt; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><big><span>NOTE<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The PostScript glyph name must only include uppercase or lowercase English letters, European digits, the period or the underscore, i.e. from the set [A-Za-z0-9_.] and should start with a letter, except the special glyph name ".notdef" which starts with a period</span></big><span><big>.</big><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><br>I am not sure what the first NOTE means. Two questions:<br><ul><li>Does it apply only to OFF fonts containing TrueType outlines (since we've already been told CFF flavored fonts use Version 3 post table)?<br></li><li>Does it mean simply that the Version 3 post table should not be used (except for CFF fonts), or does it mean that the post table must be version 2 AND that name indices between 0 and 257, referring to Macintosh names, should not be used?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></li></ul>I'd like to propose we make the text clear, but as I don't understand it myself I'm not sure what text to suggest.<br><br>Regarding the second NOTE, it would be good to include the fact that names should be no longer than 31 characters (as mentioned in the AGL specification along with the character set limitation). To that end I propose this change:<br><br><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-width: 2px !important; border-left-style: solid !important; border-left-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-right-width: 2px !important; border-right-style: solid !important; border-right-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; padding: 0px 15px; margin: 8px 2px; "><big><span></span></big>The PostScript glyph name must<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font color="#ff0000">be no longer than 31 characters,</font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strike>only</strike><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>include<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font color="#ff0000">only</font>uppercase or lowercase English letters, European digits, the period or the underscore, i.e. from the set [A-Za-z0-9_.] and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strike>should</strike><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>start with a letter, except the special glyph name ".notdef" which starts with a period.</blockquote><br>Bob<br><br><div width="1" style="color: white; clear: both; "></div></blockquote><br><br><br><div width="1" style="color: white; clear: both; "></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>