On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:50:43PM +0100, Davide Viti wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:19:55PM +0000, Paul Martin wrote: > > Package: ttf-freefont > > Version: 20080323-1 > > Severity: grave > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > Running "waterfall" on FreeSerif, FreeSans and FreeMono shows only blank > > squares for ttf-freefont 20080323-1. Reverting to 20060501cvs-12 cures > > this. > > > > The fact that 20060501cvs-12 is 1802kB in size, but 20080323-1 is merely > > 274kB might have something to do with it. > > > > I'm pretty ebarassed about this! > tried to open the source sfd files with fontforge and I can't see any glyph, > so the > problem is not just with generated ttf file. > Here's a snipped of a conversation about this which took place on #dejavu > > <+eimai> same problem here > <+eimai> did george change his sfd format again? > <+eimai> SplineSet, I can't remember seeing that in old sfd files > <+eimai> it appears that SplineSet isn't in older sfd files, comes after > "Fore", don't know what it means or why it should create problems > <+eimai> strange enough, EndSplineSet is in the older sfd format > <+eimai> I'd say: upgrade FF again and open the files again, should then work > I guess and generate proper ttf files > <+eimai> after that: go moan against george that he should warn about > breakage in his sfd format :-p > <+eimai> don't know, my version can't handle it, I guess just go to current > svn
I've spent some time trying to figure out which version of fontforge should be
used to fix this;
the fontforge changelog [1] was not very helpful; I found this in the freefont
changelog instead:
2008-02-17 Steve White
* sfd/*.sfd: committed to FontForge Spline Font Database (SFD) 2
format.
this makes me think the Debian version of FF (0.0.20080203-1) missed that
feature just for a few days.
I noticed there's already a request for an update (#472772)
regards,
Davide
[1] http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/changelog.html
[2]
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/freefont/ChangeLog?revision=1.248&root=freefont&view=markup
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