On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:24:36PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> The font seems to have a buggy (too big) GPOS kerning table (it does cause
>> fontforge to hang writing the font). If 'kern' is set to 'yes', I get this
>> error:
>>
>> ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/node-inj.lua:62:
>> attempt to index local 'kb' (a nil value)
>>
>> I had to put if..then around that line to suppress the error, may be
>> some checks are needed for such broken fonts.
>
> i don't get that error (might be catched already in my version) but  
> indeed the font has weird kerning

OK, I'll try to re-test with the next beta.

>
> (maybe the font is not really meant for using but just for rendering in  
> the reader)

They offer it for sale as well[1], but it might not be the exact font
files.

[1]http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFontPackage&code=1741

Regards,
 Khaled


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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer

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