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Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Jan 2018 08:06:07 +0100 (CET) |
>> . Ewald, I suggest that we simply increase the allowed number of
>> hints for Type 1 fonts – we can still fix this later if really
>> needed.
>
> The allowed number of hints is set by the value `CF2_MAX_HINTS'
> defined in `pshints.h', this value determines the amount of memory
> allocated for the hintmap records and hintmask too. So we can
> increase the limit to something higher but really only as a
> temporary fix, I think. Does 360 sound good (since the one had 344
> hints)?
Yes, sounds sensible, thanks. Could you do a sweep over all Type 1
fonts from TeXLive just to be sure? I guess this is the most
important repository of PFB files that is still in use.
> As for a long-term fix, fortunately, hintmasks are not used in
> Type 1, so we can focus on the hint records. These could use an
> ArrStack instead, removing the arbitrary limit on Type 1 fonts,
> while adding checks to enforce the limit for CFF.
Please proceed :-)
Werner
- Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week, Ewald Hew, 2018/01/01
- Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week, Ewald Hew, 2018/01/02
- Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/01/02
- Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week, Nikolaus Waxweiler, 2018/01/02
- Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week, Ewald Hew, 2018/01/02
- Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/01/02
- Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week, Dave Arnold, 2018/01/02
- Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/01/03
- Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week, Ewald Hew, 2018/01/04
- Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/01/06
- Re: [ft-devel] New FreeType release within a week, Ewald Hew, 2018/01/07