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Re: bug in ae virtual fonts, or in fontinst, or in vptovf/vftovp?



Vladimir Volovich writes:

> Hi,
> when i'm trying to produce vpl file for the ae fonts from vf and tfm
> files, i get a "bad vf file" error from vftovp, e.g.:

> % vftovp aer10.vf aer10.tfm aer10.vpl
> Bad VF file: Oversize dimension has been reset to zero.

See my other mail for this issue.  Bug in vptovf, fixed in web2c 7.3.

...

> and this is definitely a bug in vftovp, since error message goes to
> stdout instead of stderr; and the last line in vpl file

> (COMMENT THE TFM AND/OR VF FILE WAS BAD, SO THE DATA HAS BEEN CHANGED!)

> comes without a newline character, which is also a bug.

Fixes will be in web2c 7.3 as well.

-- 
Olaf Weber