[Devel] Oversized tables

[Scott Long]

A few people have mentioned that FreeType has trouble with tables that 
are BIGGER than the spec says they should be. I've run into a similar 
problem with a HEAD table that was a few bytes longer than it should 
have been. FreeType refused to load the font, but after a simple 
change to allow larger tables the font works fine.

I think maybe it should be policy to always accept a table as long as 
it's AT LEAST as big as the spec? Bigger tables don't hurt anything, 
and quite a few fonts have these funky tables. I would make the 
changes myself, but I don't know all the different spots in the code 
where the table sizes are checked.

My theory is that whatever software produced the font files was 
padding its internal data structures to a multiple of 4 bytes, and 
didn't remove the pad before writing the tables.

Scott Long
SwiftView, Inc. http://www.swiftview.com