From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/49089 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Bug with "Adobe Arabic" font kerning Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:24:36 +0200 Message-ID: <49D92194.6050201@wxs.nl> References: <20090405151858.GA14899@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238966728 14850 80.91.229.12 (5 Apr 2009 21:25:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:25:28 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Apr 05 23:26:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LqZra-0002EU-Sx for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:26:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB5D1FBBE; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19463-06-9; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:24:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 845371FB38; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:24:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1D71FB38 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:24:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19463-06-8 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:24:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (filter4-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.220]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 915EF1FB29 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:24:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n35LObfQ019995 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:24:38 +0200 Original-Received: from [10.100.1.107] (unverified [10.100.1.107]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 26270-1840426 for ; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:24:37 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <20090405151858.GA14899@khaled-laptop> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.107 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=83.247.100.17; country=NL; region=16; city=Dronten; latitude=52.5333; longitude=5.7167; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5333,5.7167&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 204202453 - 0316498050ff - 20090405 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.220 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:49089 Archived-At: Khaled Hosny wrote: > The font seems to have a buggy (too big) GPOS kerning table (it does cause > fontforge to hang writing the font). If 'kern' is set to 'yes', I get this > error: > > ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/node-inj.lua:62: > attempt to index local 'kb' (a nil value) > > I had to put if..then around that line to suppress the error, may be > some checks are needed for such broken fonts. i don't get that error (might be catched already in my version) but indeed the font has weird kerning (maybe the font is not really meant for using but just for rendering in the reader) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________