[CREATE] Font Validator 2.1 binaries.

[Dave Crossland]

Congrats on getting this release out there :)

On 15 August 2017 at 16:52, Hin-Tak Leung <htl10 at users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:

> Finally got round to build the binary - just get
> FontVal-2.1.0-py-bin-net4.zip from
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/hp-pxl-jetready/files/Microsoft%20Font%
> 20Validator/
>
> I recovered the test results I did almost a month ago from my old computer,
> on all fedora 26 shipped fonts - will upload at some point. Break-down is
> this:
>
> 3283 fonts examined in total
> 1493 fonts with CFF outlines (skipped for truetype hinting instruction
> check)
> 1395 fonts with truetype outlines passed
> 394 fonts with various degree of hinting instruction warnings/errors
> 1 zero-length font file, filed as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
> show_bug.cgi?id=1473437
>                                    Redhat had already shipped an updated
> font package (I have not re-tested yet).
>
> 1 + 394 + 1395 + 1493 == 3283
>
> i.e. roughly 400 (22%) out of 1800 of fonts with truetype hinting could do
> with some love on correcting the hinting instructions. Quite similar to a
> year ago.
>
> As you know the delay was due to computer broke and new computer, so
> please feel free to donate ( https://sourceforge.net/p/hp-
> pxl-jetready/donate/ ) . I want the Mac OS X binary to be as
> fully-featured (needs to build with a newer cross-compiler), so 2.1.1 will
> be a Mac OS X-specific release, whenever that might be.
>
> More details in the release notes about what changed in the last 12 months
> since 2.0:
> https://github.com/HinTak/Font-Validator/blob/master/Release-Notes
>
> I have decided to revert the "Windows-only problem fixed: can now accept
> non-ascii font name" change, because it causes intermittent (about 1 in 10)
> failures. So the binary is built to work for english font file names only,
> as it did for the release 2.0 a year ago. Sorry about that.
>



-- 
Cheers
Dave
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