Re: Fw: Re: [ft] opentype problems

[mpsuzuki]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:15:25 +0900
address@hidden wrote:
>I modified the value by binary editor. (It's lucky that freetype can
>load the font file with wrong checksum :-))
>
>00000000  00 01 00 00 00 14 01 00 00 04 00 40 47 44 45 46 address@hidden
>          [snip]
>000000D0  9C 84 04 5E 00 00 01 4C 00 00 00 36 68 68 65 61 ...^...L...6hhea
>000000E0  06 D3 FD 6C 00 00 01 84 00 00 00 24 68 6D 74 78 ...l.......$hmtx
>                      ^^^^^^^^^^^ (hhea starts 0x00000184)
>          [snip]
>00000180  00 00 00 00|00 01 00 00|02 F8|FF 37|00 3B|FF FF ...........7.;..
>                     |  version  | xxx | xxx | xxx |<HERE>
>
>When I decrease 0xFFFF to smaller values, the glyph width gets
>smaller, but the rendering result of old ftview (including
>wrong glyph width bug) is still different from current ftview.
>See attached picture, I suppose Burmese ligature functionalities
>are broken.

Just I've checked how modified yngn.otf of decreased-advanceWidthMax
works with FireFox, and confirmed that OpenType functionalities for
Burmese script are broken. Furturemore, it seems that all glyphs
(both of US-ASCII glyphs and Burmese glyphs) are layouted aslike if
they were "fixed-width". Oops.

Regards,
mpsuzuki