Re: How can I have OTF for MacOS

From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 18:36:51 EST

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    On Dec 1, 2003, at 4:24 PM, Frank Yung-Fong Tang wrote:

    > John What 'cmap' format Apple use in the MacOS X
    > Devanagari and Bangla fonts?
    >

    The formats are irrelevant; the Mac supports all the 'cmap' subtable
    formats for all subtables. For rendering complex scripts, however, the
    font can only be rendered through ATSUI (or Cocoa), because the old way
    to support complex scripts — via an 'itl5' resource in the suitcase
    with the 'FOND' and 'sfnt' resources — is not supported on X.

    Apple really, really wants everybody to move to using Unicode in their
    applications for all their text, and Apple really, really, *really*
    wants people to do it for complex scripts.

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    John H. Jenkins
    jenkins@apple.com
    jhjenkins@mac.com
    http://homepage..mac.com/jhjenkins/

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