Re: [ft-devel] Fourth Release candidate for 2.2

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Dave Behnke wrote:

> I integrated this build into my project and ran into a minor problem in 
> trying to use an arial truetype font.  Lines 171 - 173 of \src\sfnt\ttmtx.c, 
> in the tt_face_load_hmtx method look like this:
>
>     if ( FT_QNEW_ARRAY( *longs,  num_longs  ) ||
>          FT_QNEW_ARRAY( *shorts, num_shorts ) )
>       goto Fail;
>
> The problem is that my font has all 1673 long format metrics
> and 0 short format so the second call to FT_QNEW_ARRAY gets 0
> as its second argument.  This causes it throw an invalid
> parameter error.  I'm not exactly sure what the intention was
> but I think all long or all short formats should be valid.

I believe this is already fixed in CVS.  Check recent mailing
list archives for the discussion.

> Dave Behnke
> Retail Technology Solutions, Inc.

--behdad
http://behdad.org/

"Commandment Three says Do Not Kill, Amendment Two says Blood Will Spill"
        -- Dan Bern, "New American Language"