Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-07-20

[Qianqian Fang]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 07/20/2009 10:03 AM, Qianqian Fang wrote:
>> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>> ☛ Mid-term, files in legacy PCF or Type1 formats need to be converted
>>> or removed.
>>
>> just curious, for PCF, what format you plan to convert to ?
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>> I had tried SFNT TTF/OTF, neither of them works with the current 
>> fontconfig
>> (cache file could not be generated).
>
> File a bug?!?!?
>
> behdad

yes, I brought it up on fontconfig's mailing list in 2006, mpsuzuki
posted a patch, but it has never been committed.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2006-August/002364.html

also, it seemed there were some intrinsic difficulties for fontconfig to 
handle
multi-strike sfnt ttf.

Qianqian

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