[Devel] Re: Distiller produced PFA problems

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi,

I will get the patch out tonight.  I know what to change, I just need to make
sure that there aren't any ill side affects.

Tom

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Blinn, Eric W wrote:

>
> Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> >
> > I found the problem, finally.  There is bug in FreeType that
> > reports there is no CharStrings dictionary when there is one.
> > Adding a FontInfo dictionary causes the false report to go
> > away.  I'll see what I can come up with.
>
> Thanks for all the effort Tom.  Since you've found the problem
> this information probably has little value, but you had asked
> in another message about whether I had added a dummy FontInfo
> dictionary when testing your fix on my platforms.  I had not,
> but the analysis you gave pretty well explains how the dummy
> FontInfo data was masking the CharStrings dictionary bug at
> your end.
>
>
> > Eric, I hope this isn't causing you too much stress, what
> > with the 11th hour show stopper you were referring to...
>
> Well, maybe only a couple days of stress!  :-)
> It looked like it could hold up our release, but since then
> we have done a risk analysis.  With the data we're handling,
> we don't think it will be a problem in the immediate future
> but it could be (likely will be) down the road.  Now that
> you have a handle on the problem, I'll just roll whatever
> fix you settle on into our next release (or perhaps even this
> one if circumstances permit).
>