A Dissabte 17 Maig 2008, vàreu escriure: > > > As others have mentioned already: This font is broken, and I won't > > > do anything to make FreeType accept it. > > > > From experience I know that supporting broken files is painful and > > unreliable, but i always try to follow the "Be strict in what you > > generate and be open in what you read" formula. > > Well, yes, but... > > > Anyway, i'm almost sure that nothing i can say will make you change > > your opinion so I will notify poppler/okular/evince/kpdf users that > > even Adobe renders their PDF correctly we can not do anything > > because FreeType developers do not want to be more flexible when > > loading fonts. > > You are aware of the fact that this last statement is insulting? Well, i apologize if you feel the statement to be insulting you.
I did not want to insult the great job you guys are doing with freetype. But i get bug reports about PDF that render correctly on Adobe and not on poppler based readers, and i can't fix them because it's not on my scope of fixing things. So i have to close the bugs saying the PDF is malformed and there's nothing to do, but you and i know users will not be happy about that. Users don't care about malformedness they want things working. > Tell me a reason to support this broken font! To make users happy. > Where shall I start? > Where shall I end? Perhaps one Acroread version displays it fine, but > others might not -- different Acroread versions have different > rendering engines... And what about the PDF engine of MacOS? And > other vendors? Again, i don't know nothing about fonts, not about the brokeness level of this font, not about how difficult would be to make it "work" (like fontforge and Acroread). > Why not fix the application which has created this buggy subsetted > font? Of course, but that won't help users that have an already generated PDF. > It's far more important to implement missing features in > FreeType and fix real bugs! I'm not arguing with you about how you should invest your time, it's your project and of course you know which bugs/features are more prioritary for the whole of the project. > Such counter-productive statements are of no help. Again accept my apologies. > > > By the way, in the future should i send more fonts that i get in > > poppler/okular/evince/kpdf bugs that FreeType does not render to the > > list or you prefer to get them via a different channel > > (bugzilla/somethingElse). > > Please send it to the list. Will do Albert > > Werner _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel