Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Windows 5k Name table restriction

2010-05-08 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978909/ This article says that a regression was introduced by security update 961371. The regression imposes an artificial 2,500 character length limitation on strings that are contained in OpenType or TrueType fonts. They mean 2.5K Unicode characters, or 5000

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Windows 5k Name table restriction

2010-05-08 Thread Garrick Van Buren
Nicolas, Thanks for the update on that unfortunate bug. Great to hear it's fixed. I just committed a update of the fontforge_font_optimizer.pe - it no longer includes the workaround for that MS bug. I agree - needing to change metadata to get fonts to successfully render is an awkward

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Windows 5k Name table restriction

2010-05-08 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Garrick Van Buren wrote: Nicolas, Thanks for the update on that unfortunate bug. Great to hear it's fixed. I just committed a update of the fontforge_font_optimizer.pe - it no longer includes the workaround for that MS bug. I agree - needing to change metadata to get fonts to

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Windows 5k Name table restriction

2010-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 9 May 2010 02:14, Garrick Van Buren garr...@kernest.com wrote: The short answer is - I like them and they're consistent with the direction Kernest is pointing. Just need to work out the specifics. s/free/libre? :-)