On 01/18/2013 03:20 PM, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
I was the maintainer for the ttf-source-code-pro package and noticed that Adobe had started to put both the OTF and the TTF together in the same zip file, so I figured it would be okay to install both.
Further investigation tells me that some apps only want to use TTF, while most will use OTF if it is there or TTF otherwise. However, I was not able to uncover what happens if both are there and which one an app might use or even how to tell an app to use one instead of the other. Or if it makes any difference.
As they are released simultaneously in the same file, it is easier to keep one package up to date. And I did ask on the otf package if it would be okay and/or better to just combine them. But if there is a sound techical reason for having 2 different packages, we could go back to that easily enough.
Thanks for the response. I would be glad if we could rollback this, as I wouldn't like to see more ttf and otf fonts being packaged together, as I believe it is pointless to install both together. They get registered with the same name and we can't make sure which one will be used on each application. I never saw an application having problems with otf fonts and it is very easy anyway to maintain split ttf and otf packages. So my "sound technical reason" is that I would rather know for sure which file format is being used when I select the font name in any application. If you mean "sound technical reason" between using otf instead of ttf, searching around I found these: http://superuser.com/questions/96390/difference-between-otf-open-type-or-ttf... http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-ttf-and-otf/ Thank you.