Re: [ft-devel] Duplicate default instance as named-instance

[Adam Twardoch (List)]

A future version of the fontTools subsetter or other such tools will most likely remove all named instances from the fvar and name tables e.g. in the webfont context because there, they are just dead meat — they're really optional. FreeType should not rely on the presence of named instances. 

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On 19. Sep 2017, at 21:50, Behdad Esfahbod <address@hidden> wrote:

Werner,

I just want to say that I don't like this commit:

commit 27fee7f8c6ae75e066b5a23472b33925c6e8b1e0
Author: Werner Lemberg <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Mar 6 20:45:44 2017 +0100

    [sfnt, truetype] Always provide default instance.
   

The default instance does NOT need a named instance.  It's already there when the instance-number is not set (=0).

It doesn't make my life harder, as some fonts might include the default instance anyway, so I have to filter the duplicate entry anyway.  It's just unnecessary IMO.

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