[reportlab-users] ttfonts.py patch

[Robin Becker]

Jerry Casiano wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 11:05 +0000, Robin Becker wrote:

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>> Jerry, can you see if the following small patch improves your outcomes.

>>

>> It seems that the error you were getting related to number of contours occurs 

>> when we see glyphLen == 0. That could be because it's not really right to assume 

>> that all fonts have all the glyphs in the 0-128 range.

>>

>> I tried the following patch on ttfonts.py and that at least prevents the error 

>> from being raised.

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> 

> Nice, I removed the exception I had added and made the change you

> suggested, had no problem processing over 6000 fonts.

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I don't think I'm worried about the accessing so much as whether you can 
actually use those fonts in some real sense. Do you have some sort of test to 
produce a PDF with an alphabet for each one for example? That would help to see 
if the change above actually did more good than harm.
-- 
Robin Becker