On Thu, 3 Jul 2025 at 14:52, marc <marcpenni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently stumbled upon a problem in the legacy (non-Unicode) handling
> of Truetype fonts that Luatex inherited from Pdftex.
>
> The problem is in the file source/texk/web2c/luatexdir/font/writettf.c,
> in the function ttf_write_OS2() on line 1313. This function returns an
> error if the version of the OS/2 table in the font is greater than 3,
> but recent versions of Opentype have added versions 4 and 5 of this
> table. (And most font editors seem to use version 4 by default.)
>
> This problem is of course easily fixed, and it has in fact already been
> fixed in the original Pdftex code, see
> <
> https://svn.tug.org:8369/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writettf.c?pathrev=63385&r1=63385&r2=63384
> >.
>
> It would be great if this fix would be applied to Luatex as well.
>
>
Done
commit 7c54758685c7c1ff176306c606a075be77e3535f (HEAD -> master,
origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Luigi Scarso <luigi.sca...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jul 5 12:36:17 2025 +0200
Fix for legacy handling of truetype fonts (thanks to marcpenninga)
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luigi
