Re: failing fonts

[Tom Kacvinsky]

I found what I think is the problem:

The /Private dictionary in the /Blend dictionary had key/value pairs
for /BlueScale, /BlueShift, and /BlueFuzz.  After I removed those and
reassembled RxMM, ftlint did not core dump on it.

Now, why the z1 parser would fail on such a font is beyond me at this
moment...

More later....

Tom

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:

> I used mminstance 1.4, and got error messages from ftlint along the
> lines of:
> 
> Expect_Dict_Arguments: expecting `/FontInfo' dictionary
> RxMM-500-600.pfb: Expect_Dict_Arguments: expecting `/FontInfo' dictionary
> could not find/open file (error: 3)
> 
> I then disassembled the instance, and removed all MM related key/value
> pairs from the font (because this is an instance), reassembled the
> instance, and not ftlint is happy with the font.  Won't know what
> ftview thinks until I get into work.  I don't have a linux box at
> home, so no X...
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > The MM font you list below does not work with ATM on my Macintosh.
> > > I think the font is buggy.  I haven't had a change to figure out
> > > what the problem is.  Does Ed Kohler's mminstance correctly
> > > interpolate it and produce a "clean" instance?
> > 
> > mminstance (version 1.2) works without problems; I did
> > 
> >   mmpfb --1=500 --2=600 RxMM.pfb > RxMM-500-600.pfb
> > 
> > I got the message
> > 
> >   mmpfb: warning: didn't interpolate BlueFuzz in BlendPrivate
> > 
> > which is not important I think.
> > 
> > ftview then fails to display RxMM-500-600.pfb with the following error
> > message two times:
> > 
> >   t1.weight_vector: too early !!
> > 
> > 
> >     Werner
> > 
>