Re: [ft-devel] [Regression] Font doesn't open with Freetype CVS but works with Freetype 2.2.1

[Ismail Dönmez]

On Saturday 26 May 2007 02:13:52 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > Attached font doesn't work with freetype CVS but works fine with
> > Freetype 2.2.1 . The font was embedded in a pdf file and works fine
> > with Fontforge.
>
> Hmm, this font doesn't have a `cmap' table, which is invalid according
> to the OpenType standard, and the behaviour is defined as
> `implementation specific' in PDF standard (see section 5.5. in the PDF
> 1.6 specification).
>
> Please see
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2007-04/msg00046.html
>
> for the reason to the change behaviour.

I see but lots of real world PDF files have this kind of fonts :-/

Regards,
ismail

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