Re: [ft] ttfautohint error: broken table

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:49:14AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > I'm trying to hint Crimson font[1] with ttfautohint, but I'm getting
> > an error with bold and semibold fonts:
> > 
> >   Error code `0x08' while autohinting font:
> >     broken table
> > 
> > It would be nice if ttfautohint would give more information so I can
> > debug the font, at least the name of the offending table.
> 
> Thanks for the report; this is now improved in the git repository.
> The new error message is
> 
>   This font is not a valid font in SFNT format with TrueType outlines.
>   In particular, CFF outlines are not supported.

Thank you, but this still does not help my case, this fixes the error
message when processing CFF-flavoured fonts, which was:

  Error code `0x06' while autohinting font:
    invalid argument

But the error I'm getting is with the Crimson-Bold.ttf font (error code
0x08 not 0x06).

Regards,
 Khaled