Re: Bug report: Allow CFF based OT fonts with missing map table

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

Derek,

On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 2:23 PM Derek B. Noonburg
<derekn@glyphandcog.com> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I've encountered the same problem in a few PDF
> files. In all the cases I've seen, the OpenType file contains just the
> 'CFF ' table. My code checks for a missing 'head' table, and in that
> case it extracts the CFF blob and handles it as a CFF (not OpenType)
> font.
>
> I haven't run into a font that has 'head' and 'CFF ', but not 'cmap'.
> If that's what you have, it would be a problem for my code, too.

Please leave a comment at
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1278
If you can attach an example PDF file with such font. It'd be even
better if you proposed an MR.

Thanks,
Alexei