[Devel] Two apple oddities.

[George Williams]

   I was looking at the obliqued helvetica on my macintoy, and I 
discovered that it is a few lines of oblique wrapper around an unskewed 
helvetica. It looks like no other pfb file (well, mac POST resource which 
is normally just a pfb) I've ever seen.
   ftview (2.1.2) doesn't accept it. If anyone is interested in looking at 
it, I can pass on a copy.

   Apple's truetype spec and the OpenType spec say contradictory things 
about the Postscript name (nameid=6). Apple says there there can be only 
one PostScript name in the 'name' table and suggests that it have (plat=1, 
spec=0, lang=0). OpenType says that there must be two (and any additional 
ones will be ignored) (plat=1, spec=0, lang=0) & (plat=3, spec=1, lang=0x409)
    A person at Apple tells me that this difference really matters, though 
it did not seem to in the one font I tested.
    Does anyone know?

        http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/opentype/name.html
        http://developer.apple.com/fonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6name.html
(search for PostScript in both cases)