[tex-live] XeTeX Complete Success

Jiang Jiang gzjjgod at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 09:29:09 CEST 2015


On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> I think the question is still relevant, for SFNT-CFF fonts, should
>> FT_Get_Postscript_Name return the name from ‘name’ table or the
>> ‘CFF’ table?
>
> In the light of the recent OpenType version, stuff in the SFNT's
> `name' table(s) should always have priority.
>
>> This is relevant here because fonts in a font collections sharing a
>> ‘CFF’ table will return the same name (this is not a bug per se).
>
> Exactly.  One more reason that separate `name' tables in a TTC should
> be used.
>
> Looking into Adobe's freely available SourceHanSans.ttc (having a size
> of 111 MByte, with a whopping number of 28 subfonts), I see that
> FreeType doesn't do the right thing.  Fixed now in git, please test.

Thanks Werner! That patch works fine with XeTeX for the font I'm
testing (HanziPen.ttc).

- Jiang



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