Here is the same file available from our server:
http://forum.high-logic.com/postedfiles/Panose.pdf
This is something that is driving me nuts. It’s one of the many places where the PANOSE documentation either contradicts itself or is just plain unclear.
The picture of the uppercase E (figure 5) has lines at the top with the EWid and EOut measurements, but the text for those completely disagrees with the picture. The text says the left-most serif should not be included on either, while the descriptions for both also say they extend to the “right-most extent of the serif on the upper-most arm of the uppercase E”, but the drawing shows them ending in different places.
Does anyone have a better drawing that shows where the start and end locations of these measures should really be?
Here’s a question: If your document file (let’s say we’re talking MS Word .DOC/DOCX files) uses a font that is not on the authoring system, how does Word know the PANOSE signature of the missing font? This would be needed to find a suitable replacement font …
Maybe the .DOC file format store the PANOSE signature of each font in the document, along with the name of the font?