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Re: [Freetype] Ambiguously Undefined Glyphs [was: Mozilla needs some inf
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Brian Stell |
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Re: [Freetype] Ambiguously Undefined Glyphs [was: Mozilla needs some info on Xft] |
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Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:33:37 -0700 |
David,
Any plans to make the LOCA table available?
David Turner wrote:
>
> Hi J.,
>
> > It is difficult to say without seeing a dump of the relevant parts of
> > the fonts, but I'll take a guess. Assuming that the AUGs' cmap
> > entries point at valid loca entries, and that the loca entries point
> > at valid glyph data (you have checked that, haven't you?), I'd be
> > tempted to believe that they're trying to optimise the size of a type
> > 4 cmap by having non-zero cmap entries that are aliased to the
> > undefined glyph through the loca table.
> >
> I suspect they've simply been lazy. Most probably, the glyphs were
> taken out of the original font by simply changing the content of
> the "loca" and "glyf" table in the most simple way. You can do
> that with a rather simple C program, or even a Perl script..
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Brian Stell
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