On 1 Aug 2006 at 17:58, Aaron Sherber wrote: > While I believe it's true, as David Fenton says, that Windows has > made no changes to TrueType specifications, it also seems to be true > that with Win2000SP4 (and also with WinXP, I assume), Microsoft has > decided to enforce parts of those specifications which they were lax > about before. > > In particular, <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827487/en-us> says > "Windows 2000 SP4 introduces certain new restrictions to check the > validity of font files" and goes on to list 5 specific aspects of the > font file which it looks at. I don't know anything about the structure > of a font file, but it looks to me that while Windows used to allow > the loading of fonts that didn't quite meet the specifications, it > doesn't anymore.
While all of the above may be true, there is truly something wrong with these font files. I just fired up my old Win95 PC (c. 1996) and attempted to install the fonts on it. It rejected exactly the same fonts that Win2K rejected, i.e., it installed the titles font but rejected the others as invalid font files. This suggests to me that in this form they never would have worked on Windows at all. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
