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Re: [ft-devel] FreeType unable to open some fonts which can be opened by
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft-devel] FreeType unable to open some fonts which can be opened by some font viewers |
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Fri, 23 Dec 2016 08:57:57 +0100 (CET) |
> I have been using FreeType for managing data of a large number of
> fonts, but found that it failed to open some of the font files which
> could be opened WITHOUT ISSUE by built-in font viewers of some
> operating systems. I don't know if it's caused by lower fault
> tolerance of FreeType.
This is indeed something to investigate, however...
> The attached files are some of those "problematic" font files and an
> excel files which lists error code returned by FT_Open_Face and the
> test results from font viewers.
this file has a whopping size of 143MByte (and downloading doesn't
work for me here in Austria due to time-outs)! Additionally, I don't
like to handle excel files, so please
(a) convert the large tar file into separate files so that I have
one tar file per font family, and
(b) convert the excel file into plain text.
Note that you shouldn't post proprietary fonts to a public mailing
list, so we have
(c) provide links to the bundles only privately to me in case the
fonts are not free.
Werner