[Devel] Re: Distiller produced PFA problems

[Tom Kacvinsky]

The problem is that the font has a missing FontInfo dictionary.  I added one
based on some Type 1 fonts laying around, and things then worked out OK.  The
only problem now is that the font views rather weird.  I'll look into it more
tomorrow...

Tom

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Blinn, Eric W wrote:

>
> See attached PFA font file...
>
> I should add that it looks like the missing subrs array is not the sole
> problem here.  When you get in and look at the T1_Loader you will see that
> there are other members that have been initialized but never populated.  If
> we hadn't tripped over the missing subrs array we would trip on the missing
> charstrings array in the conditional block that follows immediately after.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Kacvinsky [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:22 AM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: [Devel] Re: Distiller produced PFA problems
> >
> >
> > Would you send the "offending" PFA to us?  A Type 1 font need
> > not have a Subrs
> > array, so we probably ough to add some logic to the code to
> > work around this...
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Blinn, Eric W wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I'm trying to work with some ASCII Type 1 fonts (.pfa)
> > produced by Adobe
> > > Distiller.  In every case I've tried so far, FreeType has
> > been unable to
> > > load the font. I've tried version 2.0.1 and also the
> > current snapshot, with
> > > no luck.
> > >
> > > The error coming out of FT_New_Face() is FT_Err_Invalid_File_Format.
> > > Stepping down into the driver code I find that error is
> > really propagating
> > > up from T1_Open_Face() where we find no subrs array in the face.
> > >
> > > I'm just getting started investigating this, but thought
> > I'd see if anybody
> > > else has knows anything about it.
> > >
> >
> >
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