ref: 986ea4b2cbdcec86da548e1a3681df5441cc3d50
parent: 3b0e500601a91fa0e8819176f05379c2f8fbbf0f
author: Werner Lemberg <[email protected]>
date: Wed Jul 4 00:53:15 EDT 2007
* docs/PROBLEMS: Mention that some PS based fonts can't be handled correctly by FreeType.
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-07-04 Werner Lemberg <[email protected]>
+
+ * docs/PROBLEMS: Mention that some PS based fonts can't be
+ handled correctly by FreeType.
+
2007-07-03 Werner Lemberg <[email protected]>
* src/autofit/aflatin.c (af_latin_metrics_init_blues): Initialize
--- a/docs/PROBLEMS
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+Running Problems
+================
+
+
+* Some Type 1, Multiple Masters, and CID-keyed PostScript fonts aren't
+ handled correctly.
+
+-----
+
+Of course, there might be bugs in FreeType, but some fonts based on
+the PostScript format can't behandled indeed. The reason is that
+FreeType doesn't contain a full PostScript interpreter but applies
+pattern matching instead. In case a font doesn't follow the standard
+structure of the given font format, FreeType fails. A typical example
+is Adobe's `Optima' font family which contains extra code to switch
+between low and high resolution versions of the glyphs.
+
+It might be possible to patch FreeType in some situations, though.
+Please report failing fonts so that we investigate the problem and set
+up a list of such problematic fonts.
+
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+
+
Compilation Problems
====================
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+
+--- end of PROBLEMS ---