Please explain Font Book validation errors
When using Font Book to validate fonts, it sometimes reports a variety of errors. Can anyone point me to something that explains the meaning and relative seriousness of the different errors that Font Book may report? Also, can anyone point me to information about which errors can be fixed and how?
Thanks in advance.
Daniel
Let me ask this question a different way, since the answers I'm getting seem to misunderstand what I'm asking. Just to be clear, I'm not asking anything about whether Font Book is good or bad, about whether other applications are better, or whether it is okay to ignore Font Book's validation reports. Okay?
I'd just like to know what the errors that Font Book reports mean. It seems crazy to me that Font Book would offer font validation, would run various tests and report whether those tests were passed or failed, and yet no information is available whatsoever about what it is actually testing. Does anyone know?
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Post your code inside the code tag.
881507 wrote:
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881507 wrote:
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