On 3/25/2026 11:34 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 at 10:53, Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 3/25/2026 5:40 AM, Max Chernoff via ntg-context wrote:
> $ wget 'https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/lxgw-fonts/
LXGWNeoXiHei.ttf <https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/lxgw-fonts/
LXGWNeoXiHei.ttf>'
are these fonts actually tested at all before being uploaded
Using ttx should be doable, I think
$ ttx LXGWNeoXiHei.ttf
Dumping "LXGWNeoXiHei.ttf" to "LXGWNeoXiHei#2.ttx"...
Dumping 'GlyphOrder' table...
ERROR: An exception occurred during the decompilation of the 'post' table
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/<..>/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fontTools/ttLib/ttFont.py",
line 482, in _readTable
table.decompile(data, self)
File "/<..>/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fontTools/ttLib/tables/
_p_o_s_t.py", line 52, in decompile
raise ttLib.TTLibError(
fontTools.ttLib.TTLibError: 'post' table format 7865.120026 not supported
ERROR: Unhandled exception has occurred
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/<..>/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fontTools/ttx.py", line 452,
in main
process(jobs, options)
File "/<..>/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fontTools/ttx.py", line 434,
in process
action(input, output, options)
File "/<..>/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fontTools/misc/
loggingTools.py", line 375, in wrapper
return func(*args, **kwds)
File "/<..>/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fontTools/ttx.py", line 295,
in ttDump
ttf.saveXML(
File "/<..>/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fontTools/ttLib/ttFont.py",
line 289, in saveXML
self._saveXML(writer, **kwargs)
File "/<..>/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fontTools/ttLib/ttFont.py",
line 354, in _saveXML
self._tableToXML(tableWriter, tag, splitGlyphs=splitGlyphs)
File "/<..>/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fontTools/ttLib/ttFont.py",
line 386, in _tableToXML
table.toXML(writer, self)
File "/<..>/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fontTools/ttLib/ttFont.py",
line 866, in toXML
glyphOrder = ttFont.getGlyphOrder()
File "/<..>/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fontTools/ttLib/ttFont.py",
line 543, in getGlyphOrder
glyphOrder = self["post"].getGlyphOrder()
AttributeError: 'DefaultTable' object has no attribute 'getGlyphOrder'
at least as long as it's supported...
ah, it already crashes out on the post table ... lucky it doesn't
continue till it has to read features (billions of reads to get these
basic script/language tables loaded, apart from lookups etc) .. no
surprise that applicatiosn that allocate mem beforehand crap out (lua
allocates as it goes along so indeed we use gigabytes of mem here) ..
imagine the xml files ttx would produce
Hans
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