Re: [ft-devel] [PATCH] Always check the checksum to identify tricky fonts

[mpsuzuki]

Dear Kan-Ru Chen,

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:37:53 +0800
Kan-Ru Chen <address@hidden> wrote:
>example PDF file attached.

Thank you very much for providing interesting sample,
I have to fix this issue. Your suggestion to prioritize
the tricky font detection checksum than that by family
name helps another issue (tricky font with non-ASCII
family),
        http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2011-01/msg00003.html
so I will apply your patch.

But, there was a discussion that the tricky font detection
by the checksum might be inaccurate for too short table,
        http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2010-11/msg00033.html
so there is a possiblity that I have to revert the change
and improve the condition to detect mangled family name.

# Among the bugzillas of poppler library and its client
# applications, "please enable freetype hinting always",
# "please disable freetype hinting always" are popular
# requests.

Your sample PDF seems to be generated by "Crystal Reports",
if you know any other softwares generating a PDF including
mangled family names, please let me know.

Regards,
mpsuzuki