On Tuesday 09 March 2004 10:43 pm, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

> > The endianness issue has not been completely resolved yet... the
> > ability to save TTFonts in a text format which can be loaded on both
> > Mac & Windows still isn't working just yet. (see my previous pic with
> > the rotated fonts)
>
>   Yeah, it looks somewhat not as simple.  I'll wait for Ned's comment now.

I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. I also need to get the .sf2 fonts 
encoded for release. I will be working on this today.

> > I'm going to hold off on moving to beta for a day or two to see if we
> > can get this resolved first, so that the Bitstream fonts can still make
> > it in.  (I'll still try to push out the current updates tonight,
> > though.)
>
>   One thing we could do is to embed the base64 encoded .ttf data in a
> .cs file and create the TextStyle by calling TTCFont
> class>>newTextStyleFromTTStream:.  As we know that what is broken is
> the #collectionFromCompressedMIMEString: and
> compressedMIMEEncodedStream, this could be an easier way for 3.7.

Yes, I was thinking of doing this. It may be a bit bigger, but I think it 
makes sense.

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Ned Konz
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