On 10/25/2013 02:21 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:49:03AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
It is definitely Skia.ttf itself, and not its permissions. After my upgrade to Mavericks, I got a fresh Skia.ttf (491796 bytes), and even though the permissions were fine (644), it crashes luatex, standalone fontforge, and ttx.
The fontforge crash is in the code for handling AAT’s Multiple Masters-like thing, and Skia is the only ever publicly available font that implements it.
The font opens fine in our SortsMill fork because we dropped that code, together with support for other AAT table since it was buggy and full of comments complaining about obscure, contradicting or even absent Apple documentation.
My suggestion is to do the same in LuaTeX, I doubt any one is going to bother with writing an AAT shaper and that is a good shunk of code (and potential bugs) to get rid of.
Good point. There is a lot of AAT-related code, and if noone uses it anyway ... Best wishes, Taco