[Pkg-fonts-devel] 20090104 release of GNU FreeFont

Arne Goetje arne at linux.org.tw
Fri Jan 23 05:16:26 UTC 2009


Davide Viti wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> I've worked on the new package since its release and I'm currently stuck with a problem:
> one of the "products" of the build, is an "udeb" package meant to be used by the Debian
> graphical installer: it consists of a ttf files with a stripped down set of glyphs.
> The stripped down ttfs are created via a fontforge script.
> 
> To make sure the udeb is fine, i render some text with the standard ttf, then I render
> the same text with the stripped ttf and compare the two images, expecting no differences.
> 
> This test fails, for example for Bengali, Gujarati and Hindi languages, which are supported
> by te udeb: this means that one of that removed glyph ranges causes the problem, but haven't
> figured out yet with one.

do you have the source somewhere so that I can take a look?

Thanks
Arne
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