Re: [Devel] Oversized tables

[David Turner]

Hello Scott,

Scott Long wrote:

> A few people have mentioned that FreeType has trouble with tables that 
> are BIGGER than the spec says they should be. I've run into a similar 
> problem with a HEAD table that was a few bytes longer than it should 
> have been. FreeType refused to load the font, but after a simple 
> change to allow larger tables the font works fine.
>
> I think maybe it should be policy to always accept a table as long as 
> it's AT LEAST as big as the spec? Bigger tables don't hurt anything, 
> and quite a few fonts have these funky tables. I would make the 
> changes myself, but I don't know all the different spots in the code 
> where the table sizes are checked.
>
> My theory is that whatever software produced the font files was 
> padding its internal data structures to a multiple of 4 bytes, and 
> didn't remove the pad before writing the tables.

Good idea, would you care contributing a patch for this ?

Thanks,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)