Re: OT: Free Fonts

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 20:28:43 EST

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    At 01:17 PM 12/4/2003, John Jenkins wrote:

    >Slight correction: Apple and Microsoft own the original TT spec and Apple
    >owns our additions to it. Whenever there's a change made to the core
    >tables common to all the TT-derived formats (e.g., 'cmap'), MS, Apple, and
    >-- in actual practice -- Adobe consult back and forth to make sure we're
    >all OK with it.

    Thanks for the clarification. I knew that MS, Apple and Adobe consult on
    anything affecting the common TT/OT tables, but wasn't clear that Apple and
    MS jointly own those tables.

    JH

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