Re: [ft-devel] Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 130, Issue 8

[Hin-Tak Leung]

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 From: Markus Trippelsdorf <address@hidden>
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 Subject: Re: [ft-devel] Hinting paths
 Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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 There is a nice summary of the recent ATypI conference on
 LWN today:
 http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/662813/4795feb3a4ac97d2/
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Interesting reading.

There was a  couple of inaccuracies in the article - the 1st iso opentype
spec was in 2007, not 1996 (and draft exists earlier than 2007, of course);
and about DSIG, interestingly in the 2015 spec out before the conference,
it is no longer 'recommended' but optional, so one of the 'wishes' has already 
sort-of
happened before the panel discussion.

Also, rather strangely Si Daniels of Microsoft doesn't know that
microsoft's font signing tool package also ships a signature checking tool.
It is rather user-unfriendly, and also tightly coupled to the windows trust 
system
though; and it is not 'open'...

As for a tool for examining signatures in fonts in the 'open' world, well, one
just came into existence a few days ago. People interested in that, please 
reply by privately.

There is apparently at least one non-microsoft 3rd party signing tool in
existence also. If anybody else, other than you-know-who-you-are, know of
a 2nd non-microsoft sigining tool, please speak up or reply privately too.