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0002494ScribusFontspublic2006-06-30 21:35
Reporteravox Assigned Toavox  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Platformall 
Product Version1.3.0 
Fixed in Version1.3.3.2cvs 
Summary0002494: Type1 fonts use arbitrary alternate glyphs if present
DescriptionHi,

I am currently developing a set of Type1 fonts with a rich set of
glyphs. Small caps, old-style figures etc are contained within one PFB
file per shape/weight. The glyph naming follows the new guidlines from
Adobe, ie, a.sc instead of Asmall, one.oldstyle instead of oneoldstyle
etc. A simple way to get a font like this is to run 'cfftot1' on, eg,
MinionPro-Regular.otf. If I try to use either one of my fonts or the
such created MinionPro-Regular.pfb together with scribus (version 1.2.1
from Debain Sarge as well as versions 1.2.2.1+cvs20050805 and
1.3.0+cvs20050801 from debian.scribus.net), I get a wierd mixture of
normal lowercase and small cap glyphs. For example, in 'Dies ist ein
Blindtext', all occurences of 'i', 'n', 's' and 't' are actually small
caps glyphs, while 'd', 'e', 'l' and 'x' are normal lowercase glyphs. A
similar mixture occurs among the figures and accented letters.

This happens both on screen and when producing a PDF file. Converting
the PDF to PS using pdftops one can see that the encoding vector used
indeed contain a simingly random mixture of different glyphs:

/h.sc/i.sc/j.dotless/k/l/m/n.sc/o.sc

instead of

/h/i/j/k/l/m/n/o

In my experinece this problem can easily reporduced with the mentioned
MinionPro-Regular.pfb. I can, however, provide example files for this
problem if needed.

cheerio
Ralf

ralf
Steps To ReproduceA simple way to get a font like this is to run 'cfftot1' on, eg,
MinionPro-Regular.otf.

Converting
the PDF to PS using pdftops one can see that the encoding vector used
indeed contain a simingly random mixture of different glyphs:

/h.sc/i.sc/j.dotless/k/l/m/n.sc/o.sc

instead of

/h/i/j/k/l/m/n/o
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avox

2006-06-20 13:01

administrator   ~0011669

Am 20.06.2006 um 14:52 schrieb Ralf Stubner:

>Andreas Vox wrote:
>>Am 07.09.2005 um 17:23 schrieb Ralf Stubner:

>>Did the font reach you? Where you able to reproduce the problem?
>>Thanks.

>Yes, but I didn't have time to look into the problem yet.

A short update from my side. The issue reported in bug 0002494 has
disappeared after updating freetype to version 2.2.1. So it seems it
wasn't a scribus issue at all.

cheerio
ralf

avox

2006-06-20 17:01

administrator   ~0011672

Note that earlier 1.3.x versions of Scribus don't link with FT 2.2

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2005-08-28 17:10 avox New Issue
2005-08-28 17:10 avox Reported by => Ralf Stubner ralf.stubner at physik.uni-erlangen.de
2005-08-28 17:10 avox Reported where => Mailing List
2006-06-20 13:01 avox Note Added: 0011669
2006-06-20 17:01 avox Status assigned => resolved
2006-06-20 17:01 avox Fixed in Version => 1.3.3.2cvs
2006-06-20 17:01 avox Resolution open => no change required
2006-06-20 17:01 avox Note Added: 0011672
2006-06-30 21:35 cbradney Status resolved => closed