Font Linking vs. Font Fallback

re: Font Linking vs. Font Fallback

Michael S. Kaplan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:14:31 GMT

ScriptShape (the topic you link to) is low-level Uniscribe, where none of the stuff I talk about applies and you have to do it all yourself....

re: Font Linking vs. Font Fallback

Adrian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:08:22 GMT

I've seen a few places assert that Uniscribe will automatically apply font fallback and/or font linking, yet the documentation says just the opposite.

"Once it has determined that font fallback is required, *the application* must assign a fallback font."

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd374105(VS.85).aspx

Can you clarify what you meant about Uniscribe doing some of this work?

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