Post #1808005
2026-03-08 10:51 UTC
@mathieureguer On the one hand the OpenType spec demands that glyph names in the 'post' and 'CFF' tables conform to some rules, on the other hand PDF viewers still seem to rely on glyph names for coping text from PDFs that don't embed the original text. I understand many contemporary PDF producers still don't include the original text.
'post' spec: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/post
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@frankrolf@typo.social 2026-03-08 11:27
@justvanrossum @mathieureguer I’m curious about that as well. Which PDF viewers? Perhaps it has to do with the Type flag (embedding bit)? In my mind, all production/final and design/friendly names should be arbitrary – what matters is the cmap and features.