Re: [ft-devel] issue with ArialMT in 2.1.9

[David Turner]

Hello Ian & all,

I've created bug #11856 on the Savannah server for this issue.
You can see it at:

  http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=11856

I don't know if we'll have the time to correct the bug right now,
there are a few things regarding the server that we'd like to
complete before that.

Bonus points to you if you can write a tiny regression test
for this issue, we'll try to include it in the CVS :o)

Regards,

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


Ian Brown a écrit :
> In the latest release of our software, we have updated from ft 2.1.5 to
> ft 2.1.9 (with the truetype hinting patch applied).
> This is causing us problems with an Arial MT font (_A______.PFB) which
> is apparently shipped with Acrobat reader 4 / 5. Apparently, many of our
> customers are using that font :-(
>
> The problem is that when freetype tries to render the space character,
> it finds only one instruction which is 'closepath' and generates a
> syntax error saying that there is no current path. Now, I can see that
> it is doing the right thing - but the upshot of it is that I cannot get
> the width of the space character and so our software breaks with this
> font. Freetype versions prior to 2.1.9 (well, at least 2.1.5) ignored
> this error - and so all our customers see is that the new version of our
> software breaks on fonts that the old version could handle.
>
> Is it possible for freetype to ignore this syntax error (i.e. no current
> path) in the special case where closepath is the only instruction for a
> glyph? Either that, or is there a way I can tell freetype to ignore
> syntax errors like this when processing the font?
>
> Ian
>
> Ps: now that you have moved to savannah, will it be possible to make bug
> reports in the tracker there? It would seem like a better place to
> report such things than here.
>
>
>
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