On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:19:54PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> I came across an OpenType font with TrueType outline that had an .otf
>> extension, attempting to use it gave me this error:
>>
>> !luaTeX error (file /home/khaled/.fonts/UthmanTN1_Ver06.otf): can't find
>> table `CFF '
>>  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>>
>> Reading OpenType specification, I see that it allows this:
>>
>>     * In all cases, fonts with only CFF data (no TrueType outlines)
>>       always have an .OTF extension.
>>     * Fonts containing TrueType outlines may have either .OTF or .TTF,
>>       depending on the desire for backward compatibility on older
>>       systems or with previous versions of the font. TrueType Collection
>>       fonts should have a .TTC extension whether or not the fonts have
>>       OpenType layout tables present. 
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is a LuaTeX of ConTeXt issue, but my guess is that
>> a ConTeXt issue, thus reported here.
>
> it's not a context message; does renaming the font work ok?

Yes, it seems to be all about the extension, I tried renaming some fonts
from .ttf to .otf and got the same error.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team