Re: [Freetype] more info on the Mac Type1 FOND issue - weird style suffix tables

[Garrick Meeker]

There is a double-free bug in ftmac.c that is now fixed in CVS.  Basically if 
it got an error while reading a font it would crash.  Now Bejing doesn't 
crash, but the reason it can't read it is because sfnt fonts with multiple 
bitmaps aren't supported yet (or something like that).

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 07:28 am, Paul Miller wrote:
> >It seems I'm the only one using FreeType on a Mac. I did some more
> >digging, and found a one-character mistake in the current style name code
> >(this is in all versions of ftmac.c):
>
> More digging here.
>
> It seems Type 1 font files contain multiple FOND resources - whereas
> TrueType fonts contain a single FOND resource if there are sfnt resources.
>
> So, I added a check for a sfnt resource. If it fails, I add face_index to
> the FOND index - otherwise I reference the first FOND and use the
> face_index to offset the face association table (the old way).
>
> This seems to handle Type 1 fonts fine.
>
> However, there is problem with the Beijing .dfont file. Attempting to load
> it crashes FreeType. Can anyone confirm this? In theory this should be a
> problem on non-Mac hosts, because the TT loader is what is failing.
>
>
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