Re: [Devel] Problems with FT_Get_Postscript_Name and TTF files?

[David Turner]

Hi Eric,

Eric Poulsen wrote:
> > You should be very careful with FT_Get_Postscript_Name invoked on 
> > TrueType 
> > fonts.
> > Some of them just do not have it :-)
>
> ... 
>
> > Yes. :-)
> > Do not use TrueType fonts :-))
>
>
>
> Firstly, thank you for your response.  It is greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Fair enough -- my application is going to produce PostScript in the end
> any way, and I was planning to use PS fonts, but I had a font dir that
> contained both, when my app stumbled across this problem.
>
> In a larger sense, though, shouldn't FT_Get_Postscript_Name just return
> NULL if there is no name for a TTF font, rather than segfault?  Or is
> this function still considered 'experimental' with TTF?
Of course, what you're describing is not a feature bug a critical bug
(as anything that makes the engine crash, by the way). I couldn't
reproduce the bug with the current CVS sources, nor understand easily
where it could come from.

Could you send me directly one offending font ? (work address preferred
for now).

Thanks in advance,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)