Re: Raghindi Font and Xft

[Eric Mader <mader jtcsv com>]

At 09:17 AM 5/8/2002, Owen Taylor wrote:
> I spent a little more time looking at it, and the problem is simply
> that Raghindi includes a 0 length 'kern' table, which is presumably
> supposed to be ignored.
>
> When I modified fonttools to skip 0-length tables, then dumped and
> recompiled the font, the result was read correctly by FreeType and
> worked well with the indic-xft shaper

> I've CC'ed Prof. R.K. Joshi on this email ... perhaps it would be
> possible for him to produce a version of raghu.ttf without the
> 0-length table?
>
> If not, the alternative would be to get FreeType changed to treat
> 0-length tables the same as missing tables.

I think we should get FreeType changed in any case because there are 
probably other fonts out there with 0-length tables.

> Regards,
>                                         Owen

Regards,
Eric