Re: [ft-devel] TrueType font that is not loaded by freetype

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dissabte 17 Maig 2008, vàreu escriure:
> > But i get bug reports about PDF that render correctly on Adobe and
> > not on poppler based readers, and i can't fix them because it's not
> > on my scope of fixing things.
>
> Then find one!  I have written that *I* won't fix it because I don't
> have enough time (currently, it's only me who is working on FreeType
> -- David has essentially disappeared because he is involved in other
> projects in real life).  However, I won't oppose if I receive a
> sensible patch to handle such broken fonts gracefully.

Nice, will put it on my TODO

>
> > So i have to close the bugs saying the PDF is malformed and there's
> > nothing to do, but you and i know users will not be happy about
> > that.  Users don't care about malformedness they want things
> > working.
>
> Tell this a guy who uses an older version of MS Word...
>
> > > Where shall I start?  Where shall I end?  Perhaps one Acroread
> > > version displays it fine, but others might not -- different
> > > Acroread versions have different rendering engines...  And what
> > > about the PDF engine of MacOS?  And other vendors?
> >
> > Again, i don't know nothing about fonts, not about the brokeness
> > level of this font,
>
> Hehe, if you `don't know nothing', then you actually know something...

He he :D That or either my english is not as good as i'd want.

As said will try to create a not very intrusive patch that makes this font 
work.

Albert

>
> Since the very beginning of FreeType more than 10 years ago, such a
> buggy font has always been rejected.  You are the first one who wants
> a change in FreeType's behaviour.  Is this good enough to classify the
> brokenness as `severe'?
>
> > not about how difficult would be to make it "work" (like fontforge
> > and Acroread).
>
> It's not too difficult to make FreeType ignore this table.
>
>
>     Werner