[ft-devel] FreeType unable to open some fonts which can be opened by some font viewers (Re: Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 143, Issue 9)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

143 MB is quite insane to be e-mailing around just to see what's in there. I'd 
be interested in the *content* of the excel file in *plain text*, plus a list 
of file names, sizes and md5 checksums.

There is really no need to send all the font files at the preliminary stage, 
and especially no in one big tar ball. Maybe one or two of them as a sample, 
plus the full list.

Why can't you just post the excel file on its own first, even if you can't 
convert it to plain text? Yes, plain text is preferred.


 
 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 08:57:57 +0100 (CET)
 From: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
 To: address@hidden
 Cc: address@hidden
 Subject: Re: [ft-devel] FreeType unable to open some fonts
 which can
     be opened by some font viewers
 
 > 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