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

[Werner LEMBERG]

> But i get bug reports about PDF that render correctly on Adobe and
> not on poppler based readers, and i can't fix them because it's not
> on my scope of fixing things.

Then find one!  I have written that *I* won't fix it because I don't
have enough time (currently, it's only me who is working on FreeType
-- David has essentially disappeared because he is involved in other
projects in real life).  However, I won't oppose if I receive a
sensible patch to handle such broken fonts gracefully.

> So i have to close the bugs saying the PDF is malformed and there's
> nothing to do, but you and i know users will not be happy about
> that.  Users don't care about malformedness they want things
> working.

Tell this a guy who uses an older version of MS Word...

> > Where shall I start?  Where shall I end?  Perhaps one Acroread
> > version displays it fine, but others might not -- different
> > Acroread versions have different rendering engines...  And what
> > about the PDF engine of MacOS?  And other vendors?
>
> Again, i don't know nothing about fonts, not about the brokeness
> level of this font,

Hehe, if you `don't know nothing', then you actually know something...

Since the very beginning of FreeType more than 10 years ago, such a
buggy font has always been rejected.  You are the first one who wants
a change in FreeType's behaviour.  Is this good enough to classify the
brokenness as `severe'?

> not about how difficult would be to make it "work" (like fontforge
> and Acroread).

It's not too difficult to make FreeType ignore this table.


    Werner