On 20 Jan 2011, at 16:30, Deron Kazmaier wrote: > On 1/19/11 8:34 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: >> On 01/19/11 00:59, Deron Kazmaier wrote: >>> So, is something missing from this Frutiger font that Harfbuzz requires? I >>> can't say that it is a defective font (brand new from Linotype, must be >>> good, >>> right ;-), so is this a font that requires code not yet written?? Or >>> something >>> I am not handling on my end? >> The Arabic shaper is complete as far as I'm concerned. Can't tell without >> having the font though. >> >> This is a good time to say that I happily accept font donations from >> foundries >> and individuals for testing purposes. >> >> behdad >> > > ok, nothing on my end seems to change what Harfbuzz does. Frutiger glyphs > never get any substitutions, and any other font with Arabic glyphs that I > have tested work just fine. Very odd. > > Since Behdad confirms that this font works fine for him, I need to test with > some other Harfbuzz application that works and run it through the debugger > and see what the difference is. My only conclusion so far is that this font > must use a different set of routines within the shaper. Don't ask me how that > bit of code would fail and not the rest... > > So, what applications are out there I can test with? Any simply test apps? > There is the harfbuzz-ng branch of Pango, but that would not be easy to debug.
Firefox 4 uses harfbuzz-ng, so you could try that font with the latest FF4 beta (or nightly) and see if it shapes properly. JK _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
