Re: Fonts prohibiting installable embedding
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 9:44 AM Marcel Fabian Krüger <tex@2krueger.de> wrote:
>
> a font is handled by Truetype.pm if `file` reports it as "TrueType Font
> data" and Opentype.pm is it's reported as "OpenType Font file", right?
Yes, that—plus the file extension.
> the OpenType specification explicitly allows TrueType
> based OpenType fonts ... to use the `.otf` file extension.
Yes, it actually states even more decisively: “In all cases, software
must determine the kind of outlines present in a font not from the
filename extension but from the contents of the file.” [1]
> Therefore the distinction as it's done by these files is rather
> artificial.
I am not opposed to merging the checks, if someone helps us bring them
more in line with the specifications. Please submit your merge
requests here [2] or file a bug report in the Debian BTS. [3]
Thanks for caring!
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/recom#filenames
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests
[3] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/
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