>On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:05:22 +0400
>Jason <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Chris
> 
> Thank you enormously for you efforts here.

When things don't add up, that's when it get interesting. ;o)

> Am putting this back on the list

Good idea.  Only took it off while passing file attachments.

> My testing hasn't yet come up with anything that adds that mysterious 
> Unsigned Bit.

I'll confirm that later, if I am able.

> Even with Groovy.ttf
> The big difference I can see between your Groovy and mine is that when 
> played in the Flash Player, yours shows all the characters simply lined 
> up in several rows. Mine shows them larger, in one row, and has a 
> navigation system.

Groovy?  You mean the grunge2 files? ;o)  The obvious thing there is that
the default movie size is different.  The conversion itself appears to
depend on what is best for the font, it's content, and layout.
 
> I assume THAT is the where the bigger filesize comes in. But why your 
> system is compiling a completely different file to mine is a mystery.

The tests need to be consistent!  Pretty random at the moment.

> My Unix is a VPS, with no special installs (as I am incapable of that).

Depends on what you mean by special installs!  I have SWFTools on both a
VPS ( though here again the inveterate meddler has struck ) and locally.

> I have two copies of SWFTools. One standard 0.9.1 and one patched by 
> Ricardo.

0.9.1 and latest git here.  ( You might wish to class a Ricardo patched
SWFtools, as a special install. ;o) ) 

> Both the versions give the same (frustrating) result for me.

That's actually a good thing!  At least there is some consistency between
versions. 

Regards,


Chris.

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