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LUC DEVROYE


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FontShop on OpenType

FontShop's hype on OpenType. See also here for the analogy with a Swiss army knife. Same presentation on Flickr, all brought by Stephen Coles. The point is well made, namely that one file carries a lot of tools. However, even omitting the fact that font sellers will embrace any new format because it increases sales, the presentation has some (minor) incorrect statements (example: contrary to the text, a PostScript font can hold many more than 256 glyphs) and some major omissions, e.g., at the time of the OpenType design, a much better format could have been invented, and all of the OpenType things are possible in TrueType as well---it was just a renaming of the truetype structure. A technological advance? Hardly. Stephen: a great visual presentation, but a poor subject to hype.

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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html