Sythetic fonts and compliance

[Tom Kacvinsky]

I should have stated what my definition of compliance is:

if it is described in the Type 1 spec., and the font follows that
spec., then it is a Type 1 spec. compliant font.

Now, if Adobe has removed synthetic fonts from the Type 1 spec., I'll
eat my shorts.

Speaking of removal of stuff from the specification, hybrid fonts
haven't been removed, the last I checked, but Adobe no longer makes
hybrid fonts, or so I have heard.  An example of a hybrid font is old
school Optima.  The new school version uses flex hints to get away
from using two different sets of subrs/charstrings.

Tom