Re: [DejaVu-fonts] Fonts install on Windows as " (TrueType)"

[Stepan R. <st...@sr...>]

On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Stepan Roh wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Chris Lawrence wrote:
>
>> I've run across a weird bug with recent versions of the DejaVu fonts,
>> affecting versions 1.11 and 1.12 (1.10 doesn't appear to be affected):
>> copying the fonts in Windows Explorer to c:\windows\fonts produces a
>> "nameless" font, and only one font can be copied.  This affects both
>> the tar files downloaded from SourceForge and .ttfs (binary) copied
>> from the Debian 1.11-1 package.
>
> Bug added to Bugs page on DejaVuWiki.
>
> I tried it on my notebook with Windows XP and Windows Font Viewer had no 
> problems with it, but installing it caused the problem described by you.
>
> I'll try to run fonts through MS TTF Font Utilities, but I do not expect 
> anything.

I found the bug! And as a side-effect confirmed (for 100th time) my own 
stupidity.

Problem was that postprocessing badly reordered tables in TTFs. What I 
wanted to achieve was to have same ordering of tables in the file as 
FontForge, but unfortunately that also changed the order by which they 
were referenced from tables directory (spec says that table directory must 
be sorted alphabetically by table tag names). Now the table directory is 
correct, but the order of tables in TTF changed. But it works on Windows.

You can try latest snapshot (to be generated in a few hours). Snapshots 
are accessible from Snapshots page on DejaVuWiki.

Please, conmfirm that the bug was fixed. Thank you.

Have a nice day.

Stepan Roh