Re: [ft] Font broken or FreeType?

[Peter Weilbacher]

On 13.11.2008 00:52, Peter Weilbacher wrote:
> On 03.11.08 23:41, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>> I encountered a problem with FT_Load_Glyph() using the "Helvetica
>>> Italic" font (HELVI.PFB) that is included with OS/2.  It fails for
>>> one glyph (499 starting from 0) with error code 0xa0 ("opcode syntax
>>> error"). The short program below demonstrates it.  I can easily
>>> provide the font, if needed.
>>
>> This is fixed now in the CVS.  Please test.
> 
> Hi Werner,
> 
> I was away but now at least I managed to test with the reduced testcase
> and with that the problem indeed seems to be gone. Thanks!
> 
> (I also wanted to also check with the original app, but that has other
> problems, so I will postpone that. Will post here again, if I do, but I
> don't think that will happen.)

Somehow that sentence came out wrong. I meant that I'll post here again
if I find problems doing that, not that I will never even try... And
indeed, now that I used the fix in the original app, I can confirm that
the problem is gone there, too.

Thanks again,
   Peter.