From: James Kass (thunder-bird@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Nov 12 2006 - 18:37:59 CST
Olaf Drümmer wrote,
(Hmmm, I'm seeing u-umlaut here in the body of the letter in Earthlink's
compose screen, but, Earthlink has already mangled it in the "To" portion
of the letter. So it wouldn't surprise if the u-umlaut above gets munged
as well. Sigh.)
>I am not sure whether I am interpreting the OTF (and/or TTF) spec
>correctly, but the 'post' table uses the .notdef name repeatedly (for
>the first three names in the table, as well as for many more starting at
>index 51242) which I think doesn't make sense - it should only be
>present once: for the first glyph at index 0.
Quoting from:
http://ttf2pt1.sourceforge.net/ttf2pfa.html
"(almost every TrueType font has three glyphs called .notdef, one of
them is usually an empty square shape, one has no outline and has zero
width, and one has no outline and a positive width. This example is not
really a problem with well formed fonts since the .notdef characters
are only used for unprintable characters, which shouldn't occur in your
documents anyway). "
All of the glyphs named ".notdef" in Code2000 are non-printable glyphs,
mostly used for construction of "composite" glyphs. These are mainly
components of glyphs, which must be in the font, but do not need to be
defined. These are especially useful in CJK ideographs.
Quoting from
http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/tex/texi2html/dvips.html
"Following that must be precisely 256 character names; use /.notdef
for any that you do not want defined."
And, quoting from Microsoft's OpenType specs
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/post.htm
"If you do not want to associate a PostScript name with a particular
glyph, use index number 0 which points the name .notdef. "
>Could this be a reason FontBook complains?
If this is the case, then my impression is that FontBook has the
problem rather than Code200x.
Best regards,
James Kass
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