Re: [ft-devel] FW: PDF text rendering error

[Hirwen HARENDAL]

Werner, please excuse my emphasis

> The font is OK. As I've mentioned before, it is *not* possible to
> edit this font with FontLab or FontForge! 

** No smoke without fire... Sorry, but St Thomas was one of my students :-)

> You need a special editor to handle those rare fonts which use bytecode to scale and shift
> subglyphs.

** A special font editor in 1995-1998, have you got a name, I'm intersting?

> > ** http://www.nec.co.jp/csr/en/report2009/cs/ud/ud01.html at Universal
> > ** Design Fonts ?
>
> Yes, the font looks similar. No idea whether this is still a `tricky'
> font, or whether the font designer has decided to `expand' the
> subglyphs. 

** It's still tricky to work with CJK fonts, in general, but that can't explain 

the result of the font file attached, except the fact that the interpreter is very confused 

by the glyphs datas. Is this due to the use of the bytecode to scale subglyphs only ?

I'm not sure.

On the other hand, I don't think you'd be surprised by the poor quality of some 

commercial fonts that I was asked to rework.

Hirwen