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Old 12-04-2020, 01:07 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu View Post
I thought Calibre means, well, Calibre, not only Calibre 5.x. Like when people talk today of windows, they refer globally to the 7, 8 and 10 including flavours.
How often have you seen a bug fix propagated back to earlier versions of a program? So if I wanted to discuss a bug that Microsoft fixed in Windows NT 4.0 SP2, you would consider that relevant?

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Indeed, this is true.
However, wouldn't be nice that a free tool could do things a paysoftware can't? Like patching the font, the very same way it did subsetting or embedding or any other nice features...
For a free font editing tool? Check FontForge for an example. I tend to prefer a tool doing one job and doing it well to a Swiss Army knife tool. If you have the money, you could check out FontLab Studio which my employer uses.
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