Bug 698382 - TTF versions of URW fonts lacks OpenType features
Summary: TTF versions of URW fonts lacks OpenType features
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: Fonts
Classification: Unclassified
Component: free URW (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: P4 normal
Assignee: Chris Liddell (chrisl)
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Reported: 2017-08-21 00:16 UTC by Krasnaya Ploshchad’
Modified: 2021-02-12 14:38 UTC (History)
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Description Krasnaya Ploshchad’ 2017-08-21 00:16:41 UTC
In Ghostscript Git repo, all the TTF version of URW fonts does not have any GSUB/GPOS features, but OTF version does.
Comment 1 Chris Liddell (chrisl) 2017-09-05 02:31:18 UTC
I believe, looking at the fonts themselves, the TTF versions are generated to the TTF spec, *not* the OTF spec (although I haven't gone through them comprehensively).

Even in OTF, the OTF specific tables are optional, so the fonts are perfectly valid as they stand.

When we have another *real* problem with the fonts, we'll mention this to URW++ as well - they may agree to include those features.
Comment 2 Henry Stiles 2018-06-26 18:06:18 UTC
URW does not consider this a bug:

"the OTF features in the OTF fonts are only very few GSUB features and the kerning 
which we have in the kern table in the TTF versions (sic). We can re-release the TTF fonts with GSUB/GPOS tables but in my opinion this
should be done later. There is no functional difference between OTF and TTF now."


We can leave this open as an enhancement or close it possibly with "LATER"