On 01/18/2013 03:20 PM, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > I was the maintainer for the ttf-source-code-pro package and noticed > that Adobe had started to put both the OTF and the TTF together in the > same zip file, so I figured it would be okay to install both. > > Further investigation tells me that some apps only want to use TTF, > while most will use OTF if it is there or TTF otherwise. However, I was > not able to uncover what happens if both are there and which one an app > might use or even how to tell an app to use one instead of the other. > Or if it makes any difference. > > As they are released simultaneously in the same file, it is easier to > keep one package up to date. And I did ask on the otf package if it > would be okay and/or better to just combine them. But if there is a > sound techical reason for having 2 different packages, we could go back > to that easily enough. >
Thanks for the response. I would be glad if we could rollback this, as I wouldn't like to see more ttf and otf fonts being packaged together, as I believe it is pointless to install both together. They get registered with the same name and we can't make sure which one will be used on each application. I never saw an application having problems with otf fonts and it is very easy anyway to maintain split ttf and otf packages. So my "sound technical reason" is that I would rather know for sure which file format is being used when I select the font name in any application. If you mean "sound technical reason" between using otf instead of ttf, searching around I found these: http://superuser.com/questions/96390/difference-between-otf-open-type-or-ttf-true-type-font-formats http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-ttf-and-otf/ Thank you.
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