While integrating FreeType2 v2.4.10 into our product, we found we
needed to quick-patch t1load.c. I asked the developer who did it to
elaborate, and he spake thus:
That patch is to fix the problem that Freetype2 does not
handle the 3-axis MM font FontBBox correctly. What happens is
freetype2 tries to read the 2nd FontBBox and freetype2 does not
expect there are 8 components for 3-axis MM font. So it chokes. In
an earlier freetype2 version, it does not have this issue because
it does not read this 2nd FontBBox. So the patch is to skip the
2nd time action and then freetype2 is happy. As far as I can see,
such 2nd time FontBBox read is not needed for our usage.
So can we make this into the main line? Maybe not... The real fix
is deeper than this patch addresses. My 2 cents.
I am not currently in tune with the FreeType source, so I don't have
a "deeper" fix at hand. But I offer this patch to illustrate our
current workaround. Sorry if that's a tad lame - there's only so
many hours in a day.
Thanks,
-Del
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