> I guess the font is kind of buggy since
newer versions of it i can find in the
internet render fine (i think this is
an old version)
> But since it's still floating around,
and fontforge seems to render it fine
maybe it can be fixed to render in
freetype?
The difference is simple - fontforge ignores hinting instructions. If you
switch off hinting in freetype, that it loads also. FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING , or
press h in ftview.
Hmm, we seems to have a serious problem - the above describes freetype 2.8;
freetype git won't load the font with or without hinting.
This is what the python wrapper of the font validator backend (based on current
freetype git) says :
('Size 10, PushB[0], Pre-Program, At ByteOffset 0', ':', 'E6045', 'Stack
Overflow')
('Size 10, PushB[2], Pre-Program, At ByteOffset 1', ':', 'E6045', 'Stack
Overflow')
('Size 10, MPPEM, Pre-Program, At ByteOffset 5', ':', 'E6045', 'Stack Overflow')
('Size 10, WS, Pre-Program, At ByteOffset 6', ':', 'E6045', 'Stack Overflow')
('Size 10, WS, Pre-Program, At ByteOffset 6', ':', 'E6047', 'Storage index out
of range')
('Size 10, WS, Pre-Program, At ByteOffset 7', ':', 'E6047', 'Storage index out
of range')
...
piles of errors....
...
('Size 10, WS, Pre-Program, At ByteOffset 74', ':', 'E6047', 'Storage index out
of range')
('Size 10, JMPR, Pre-Program, At ByteOffset 8', ':', 'E6071', 'Execution time
too long and exceeds dynamic limit in backward jump')
So basically the hinting instruction in the prep table is trash, and also there
is a backward jump loop in the hinting instruction. The backward jump check was
added in freetype recently, so this example why freetype 2.8 is happier.
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