[Devel] Re: ftdump, and oto question.

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > > 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.
> > >      
> > 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).
> >    
>
> I've made FreeType accept the 0x00020000 tag.
>
>
>    Werner
>
>
>  

Thanks. I wonder if it is either an off-spec anomaly in the early days 
of truetype, some kind of
copy-protection scheme (font editors, etc probably wouldn't want to load 
it up?) or what.  But yes, I made
modified versions of them to 0x00010000 a few days ago and 
CJK/LaTeX+dvipdfmx+xpdf was happy both
displaying and printing, so the fonts seem to be otherwise well-formed.

Hin-Tak