Re: [ft-devel] Font that freetype doesn't want to open

[suzuki toshiya]

Albert Astals Cid wrote::
> El Dilluns, 21 de setembre de 2015, a les 13:32:18, suzuki toshiya va 
> escriure:
> > However, I don't know how Adobe Reader handles a PDF
> > including such font.  Yet I'm not sure whether FreeType2
> > should care, or, poppler should, but, if Adobe Reader opens
> > it without any font substitution, some fallback should
> > be considered.  Where can I obtain a sample PDF?
>
> If the font is "unfixable", i guess FreeType is doing the correct thing and 
> just failing, i thought poppler had a "if freetype fails try to get a font 
> from fontconfig", but i'm either wrong or there's a bug in that codepath.
>
> File can be obtained at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92017

Thanks, I found that Adobe Reader complains the embedded
font, and the most texts of the PDF are not displayed at
all (maybe no fallback). The bug submitter compares Okular
and Google Chrome and maybe thinks Google Chrome loads the
incompletely-embedded font. Should I check how Google Chrome
fix this problem?

Regards,
mpsuzuki

> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
> > Regards,
> > mpsuzuki
> >
> > Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > > > (this is tracing data from the current FreeType git version).
> > > > So you're saying we should try to load some other substitute font if
> > > > we encounter the font that i sent in the first email, right?
> > > Yes, since the font is broken and can't be sanitized by FreeType.
> > >
> > >     Werner
> > >
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