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
diff -Naur freetype-2.4.10/src/type1/t1load.c freetype-2.4.10-new/src/type1/t1load.c
--- freetype-2.4.10/src/type1/t1load.c 2012-06-14 01:35:59.0 -0400
+++ freetype-2.4.10-new/src/type1/t1load.c 2012-11-29 11:27:17.677308964 -0500
@@ -1840,6 +1840,10 @@
FT_Byte *limit, *start_binary = NULL;
FT_Boolhave_integer = 0;
+/* the flag for FontBBox to prevent from reading the second */
+/* FontBBox. 0 means not got it. 1 means already had this*/
+FT_Short fbbox_flag = 0;
+
parser-root.cursor = base;
parser-root.limit = base + size;
@@ -1918,7 +1922,6 @@
{
FT_PtrDist len;
-
cur++;
parser-root.cursor = cur;
@@ -1979,6 +1982,11 @@
? T1_FIELD_DICT_PRIVATE
: T1_FIELD_DICT_FONTDICT;
+ /* specifically skip the 2nd FontBBox */
+ if (fbbox_flag == 1
+ ft_strcmp( (const char*)name, FontBBox ) == 0 )
+ break;
+
if ( !( dict keyword-dict ) )
{
FT_TRACE1(( parse_dict: found `%s' but ignoring it
@@ -2001,6 +2009,13 @@
else
return parser-root.error;
}
+
+ if ( !(parser-root.error) )
+ {
+ /* if this is FontBBox, set up the flag and later we do not read FontBBox again */
+ if ( ft_strcmp( (const char*)name, FontBBox ) == 0 )
+ fbbox_flag = 1;
+ }
}
break;
}
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