FS#57205 - [freetype2] broken display of some Type 1 fonts via freetype2-2.9

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Allin Cottrell (acottrell) - Tuesday, 23 January 2018, 16:46 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 12:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The current freetype library for Arch (x86_64 at least)
fails to handle correctly some proprietary Type 1 fonts
(from well known vendors). This can be circumvented by
defining T1_CONFIG_OPTION_OLD_ENGINE in ftoption.h when
building the library.

Additional info:
* package version: freetype2-2.9-1-x86_64

Steps to reproduce:

1. Use pdflatex to produce a minimal PDF file that uses
either Adobe Caslon or Monotype Bulmer fonts.

2. View the PDF in xpdf or evince.

3. See very nasty results! Example at http://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/t1problem/

Also see the thread beginning at
http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2018-January/009123.html
for more discussion
This task depends upon

Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 12:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  freetype2 2.9-2

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