Re: [ft-devel] TrueType font that is not loaded by freetype

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Divendres 16 Maig 2008, vàreu escriure:
> > Hi, the attached font is not loaded by freetype but it is loaded by
> > FontForge so it seems the font is either correct or not that broken
> > to not be able to be read.
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> As others have mentioned already: This font is broken, and I won't do
> anything to make FreeType accept it.

From experience I know that supporting broken files is painful and unreliable, 
but i always try to follow the "Be strict in what you generate and be open in 
what you read" formula.

Anyway, i'm almost sure that nothing i can say will make you change your 
opinion so I will notify poppler/okular/evince/kpdf users that even Adobe 
renders their PDF correctly we can not do anything because FreeType 
developers do not want to be more flexible when loading fonts.

By the way, in the future should i send more fonts that i get in 
poppler/okular/evince/kpdf bugs that FreeType does not render to the list or 
you prefer to get them via a different channel (bugzilla/somethingElse).

Albert

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