[Devel] Re: ftdump, and oto question.

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> [About very old CJK TTFs which are rejected by FreeType]
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> > Here it is, shei11b.ttf,  bzip2'ed.
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> Thanks.  This is a strange font -- it starts with the byte sequence
> `0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00', while a normal TTF must start with `0x00 0x01
> 0x00 0x00'.  If you change it, the font will be loaded.
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> I don't know how to proceed: Are those fonts (still?) accepted by
> Windows?  Has anybody experienced something similar?
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>    Werner
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Yes, I took a look at the other 7 fonts which failed, and they all have 
this strange header, and indeed,
correcting it does the work. Strange enough 3 from the same bundle (a 
total of 11) have the correct
0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00 header. I re-read the docs that came with it, 
apparently those Arphic fonts
where intended for Microsoft Windows 3.1 Chinese version. (they all have 
a time stamp of Sept 94).