RE: Including WOFF in ACID3

"Levantovsky, Vladimir" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.fonts
Message-ID <7534F85A589E654EB1E44E5CFDC19E3D049DDC228F@wob-email-01.agfamonotype.org>
On Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:18 PM Sylvain Galineau wrote:
> 
> > From: Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:[email protected]]
> > At the moment interoperability suffers anyway, because the Ahem ttf
> > doesn't have the embedding bits set appropriately for IE9, so it
> > doesn't work there.
> 
> That's incorrect. It has the Installable 'bit' (no bits, really).
> 

Technically, Tab was correct. He did say "embedding bits" (not installable bits), and there are four of them in 'fsType' filed of the OS/2 table. There is no "installable bit" - for a font to be considered as installable all four bits must be set to 'zero'.
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