Re: [ft-devel] what old/new FontVal says about these fonts (Re: 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]

I re-ran the new backend and by-pass the full validation. 3-week-old FreeType 
is not happy with 16 of the 22; vs 4 of 22 with the old 1.0 MS proprietary 
backend.

So 12 font files MS loads, 3-week-old FreeType does not. Werner made 3 changes 
in the last few days, which presumably will fix some of the 12... 

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On Wed, 28/12/16, Hin-Tak Leung <address@hidden> wrote:

 So yes, rather interestingly, the older FontVal 1.0 backend
 from Microsoft is happy to read 18 of the 23 (18 = 29 - 6
 (CFF) - 4  - 1 [24.ttc]), which is a lot happy than
 FreeType's 4-9 of 23. the backend I was running is a heavily
 patched derivative of 
 bcae657482ca038dc2b7c4ddd737a110c85e052a . Let's say it is a
 3 weeks' old freetype.