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Re: [Freetype] Ambiguously Undefined Glyphs [was: Mozilla needs some in


From: Juliusz Chroboczek
Subject: Re: [Freetype] Ambiguously Undefined Glyphs [was: Mozilla needs some info on Xft]
Date: 11 Aug 2001 09:06:17 +0200
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>> I'd be tempted to believe that they're trying to optimise the size
>> of a type 4 cmap by having non-zero cmap entries that are aliased
>> to the undefined glyph through the loca table.

DT> I suspect they've simply been lazy. Most probably, the glyphs were
DT> taken out of the original font by simply changing the content of
DT> the "loca" and "glyf" table in the most simple way.

I sure hope you're wrong.  Brian, could you please make a dump of the
loca table in such a font and put it somewhere on the web?  (Search
for ttfdump, it used to be on ftp.freetype.org somewhere.)

                                        Juliusz


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