Re: [ft] ttfautohint error: broken table

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:32:15PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> Ah, ok.  The problem is glyph `four' (which looks *veeeery* strange),
> but it seems to be a bug in ttfautohint.  Will investigate.

Ah, I see, there is a near horizontal line that FontForge turned into a
huge number of points when converting from cubic to quadratic splines,
fixing that gets rid of the error.

Regards,
 Khaled