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

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimarts, 22 de setembre de 2015, a les 08:28:16, suzuki toshiya va 
escriure:
> 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?

That'd be great :)

Maybe we can stop CC'ing the freetype list and carry on the discussion on the 
poopler bug? It's probably a bit off topic here now?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 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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