Re: [ft-devel] [patch] TrueType GX/AAT validator

[mpsuzuki]

Dear Mr. George Williams,

On 22 Aug 2005 22:04:00 -0700
George Williams <address@hidden> wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 18:29, address@hidden wrote:
>>       - state transition diagram uses undefined glyph ID
>A note of caution here, the apple world makes use of undefined glyph IDs
>as temporary state flags. One state machine will test for a condition
>and apply a substitution which creates an invalid GID, then another
>state machine will detect the bad GID, change it to something valid and
>enter a new state where it does other substitutions.
>   Example font: Zapfino 4.1d6

Great Thank you for important information about the utilization
undefined GID. At present, I cannot find Zapfino in my MacOS X
(I'm not sure if I did misconfigured installation), so we have
not tested the font. Please let me know where I can find Zapfino?

Regards,
mpsuzuki