Re: [ft-devel] Regression issue - CFF

[Ivan Nincic]

Yup.

-----Original Message-----
From: suzuki toshiya [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:56 PM
To: address@hidden
Cc: 'Werner LEMBERG'; address@hidden
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] Regression issue - CFF

Hmm, "dynamically synthesis" means that the source of the embedded CFF font
is a TrueType font in the system where PDF was generated, and it was
converted as Type1-embedding?

Ivan Nincic wrote:
> The issue is caused by the font file itself (which was dynamically 
> synthesized from another font).
> IvanN
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: suzuki toshiya [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 9:12 PM
> To: Werner LEMBERG
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [ft-devel] Regression issue - CFF
> 
> Thank you for comment.
> 
> Also I'm interested in whether this issue is caused by the font file 
> itself, or, inappropriate modification during the font embedding by 
> PDF generator. I will try some checking...
> 
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
> 
> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>> Just I've checked Adobe Reader 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.3, it displays the 
>>> text (as attached picture).
>>>
>>> Should I ask Adobe experts about if this is a regression, or, 
>>> appropriate behaviour to prevent some vulnerability issue?
>> Yes, please do so.  Maybe there is some kind of heuristic added to 
>> the acroread code on the Mac.  However, given that it fails almost 
>> everywhere else, it's not a high priority to have this fixed in 
>> FreeType IMHO.
>>
>>
>>     Werner
>