[luatex] Attempt to build font name database fails with app crash

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Mon May 7 10:09:33 CEST 2012


On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>    http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts/o/Orlando.ttf

If I try to install the font on my Mac, it cries out with
   1 minor problem was found. Proceed with caution.
   2 serious errors were found. Do not use these fonts.

The errors seem to be in 'post' and 'kern' tables, the warnings in 'sfnt'.

A simple example like

\starttext
\font\a=Orlando.ttf \a abc
\stoptext

crashes on my computer as well:

fonts           > otf loading > loading: Orlando.ttf (hash: orlando)
mtx-context     | fatal error: no return code, message: luatex:
execution interrupted

So: the font is definitely buggy, but it would be nice if luatex would
catch the problem and refuse to load the font instead of crashing.

Mojca



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