On 23/06/11 11:06, Simon Pepping wrote: > I do not have Windows7, but I found those fonts, and they work fine. > OpenType seems to be very much a Microsoft game. Linux vendors seem > not to move along with MS. Do other font vendors?
I’m not sure. The Wikipedia page about OpenType is quite interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType Apparently OpenType was accepted as an ISO standard in 2007, which I suppose can still be considered as fairly recent. Note that Apple has its own advanced font format (AAT for Apple Advanced Typography) that I understand is little used outside of the Apple world. There is also the Graphite technology from SIL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_%28SIL%29 Since OpenType is a natural evolution of TrueType and the most widespread technology, I’d expect font vendors to progressively switch to OpenType as tools add support for it. Vincent > Simon > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:25:04PM -0600, Glenn Adams wrote: >> Microsoft changed the Indic script processing logic around 2008, and newer >> fonts provide both old 'deva' (now deprecated) and new 'dev2' tables. >> Apparently the older font you accessed does not. I have not tested against >> older fonts that do not support the new 'dev2' semantics. >> >> I have listed the fonts that I have verified to work at >> http://skynav.trac.cvsdude.com/fop/wiki/SupportedFonts. At present, the >> script detection logic is returning 'dev2' when Devanagari is detected. You >> can override this by using script='deva'; however, I have not explicitly >> tested the Devanagari code against the older logic yet. >> >> Compare [1] (May 2008) versus [2] (March 2002) for further reference. >>
