Re: [ft-devel] FreeType font that can not be loaded

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > Continuing with my "fonts that come in PDF and can not be opened"
> > series i'm attaching a TTF file that FreeType can not load.
> > 
> > FontForge seems to get it right.
>
> The font is bad.
> 
> The table header claims there are 9 tables when there are only 8.
> The binsearch header (for the tables) is wrong
> The file checksum is wrong.
> The 'prep' table has length 0. (which may not be wrong, but is odd)
> The other 6 tables have bad table checksums
> 
> I don't blame freetype.

Well, it doesn't do any harm to ignore invalid tables.  I've just made
FreeType much more tolerant against broken entries; this particular
font is now loaded.  Please test.


    Werner