At 07:43 AM 16-07-02, James Kass wrote: >Uniscribe is a windows application and Microsoft tests it. Both >Microsoft and Apple provide tools to font developers which validate >fonts. TTF/OTF fonts have a rigid structure, if a font passes either >Microsoft's or Apple's font validators yet a system crashes, it's the >system that's got the problem.
To be fair to the poor system engineers, the current font validation tools from MS and Apple are not exhaustive in their testing and also include suppositions based on pre-OT manufacturing practicesd. Microsoft are developing new validation tools. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Language must belong to the Other -- to my linguistic community as a whole -- before it can belong to me, so that the self comes to its unique articulation in a medium which is always at some level indifferent to it. - Terry Eagleton
