Re: [ft-devel] FreeType font that can not be loaded

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dilluns 04 Agost 2008, Werner LEMBERG va escriure:
> > > Continuing with my "fonts that come in PDF and can not be opened"
> > > series i'm attaching a TTF file that FreeType can not load.
> > >
> > > FontForge seems to get it right.
> >
> > The font is bad.
> >
> > The table header claims there are 9 tables when there are only 8.
> > The binsearch header (for the tables) is wrong
> > The file checksum is wrong.
> > The 'prep' table has length 0. (which may not be wrong, but is odd)
> > The other 6 tables have bad table checksums
> >
> > I don't blame freetype.
>
> Well, it doesn't do any harm to ignore invalid tables.  I've just made
> FreeType much more tolerant against broken entries; this particular
> font is now loaded.  Please test.

Thanks :-) Now that the font loads i have to test why i don't get any 
rendering in poppler itself, but that's my issue now :-)

Albert

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