Re: [ft-devel] Rendering issues with xpdf (and other Linux based pdf viewers)

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> I've downloaded the working Lohit Devanagari font from
>>
>>  https://releases.pagure.org/lohit/lohit-devanagari-ttf-2.95.4.tar.gz  ;
>>
>> it has
>>
>>  <modified value="Wed Apr 26 10:34:57 2017"/>
>>
>> in the `head' table.
>
> Okay, mine says 14 Feb 2018.  Then I went to fedora's build farm to
> see how/what exactly have they done to it...  Apparently the ttf
> fedora shipped is built from sfd and fea with fontforge, then hinted
> with ttfautohint.  So they like to build the ttf from source sfd/fea
> - that's fine - then run ttfautohint, which happens to be buggy .
>
> I see the current version of ttfautohint is 1.8.2, and 1.8.1 is only
> 10 months old . 1.8.1 is what fedora ships and likely the one which
> built  lohit-devanagari :-(

Uh, oh.  It's a regression in ttfautohint – version 1.7 works fine,
version 1.8 and higher fails.  Now fixed in git.  Attached is a new
version of Lohit Devanagari hinted with the current version of
ttfautohint.

So: Thanks for the report :-)


    Werner

Lohit-Devanagari.new.ttf.xz
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