[Devel] Re: Distiller produced PFA problems

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Would you send the "offending" PFA to us?  A Type 1 font need not have a Subrs
array, so we probably ough to add some logic to the code to work around this...

Tom

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Blinn, Eric W wrote:

>
> I'm trying to work with some ASCII Type 1 fonts (.pfa) produced by Adobe
> Distiller.  In every case I've tried so far, FreeType has been unable to
> load the font. I've tried version 2.0.1 and also the current snapshot, with
> no luck.
>
> The error coming out of FT_New_Face() is FT_Err_Invalid_File_Format.
> Stepping down into the driver code I find that error is really propagating
> up from T1_Open_Face() where we find no subrs array in the face.
>
> I'm just getting started investigating this, but thought I'd see if anybody
> else has knows anything about it.
>