[Freebangfont-devel] Re: [Pfaedit-devel] GSUB problems in truetype files

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Monday 05 May 2003 08:32 pm, George Williams wrote:
> On 2003.05.04 10:43 Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is entirely a pfaedit issue, but there seem to be
>
> Eep!
> It is entirely a PfaEdit issue.
>
> This is what was happening:
>     PfaEdit was producing a full ligature subtable for each character
> with a ligature (rather than one for each ligature type)
>     This meant that the GSUB table got bigger than 64k
>     Which meant that PfaEdit had to use extension sub-tables.
>     Only the extension sub-tables where bad.
>
> So there errors you were getting were from the bad extension tables
> (probably), and aside from that there where huge numbers of duplicate
> entries.
>
> There's a fix in the cvs tree. I'll post a new build as soon as I can.

The CVS version seems to work nicely. Many thanks for the quick fix.

Deepayan