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bug #47722: FreeSerifBoldItalic embeds current date in ttf

Submitter:  Bernhard M. <bmwiedemann>
Submitted:  Sun 17 Apr 2016 12:23:16 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  font info Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fix posted
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Stevan_White
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  * 2012-05-03
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Tue 04 Apr 2017 09:19:46 PM UTC, comment #4: 

David, that's great!  Have a look in SVN.

Thanks for the report, Bernard!

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Tue 04 Apr 2017 08:58:23 PM UTC, comment #3: 

This actually appears in two fonts: FreeSerif and FreeSerif Bold Italic. This is because these fonts do not specify unique font identifiers (name table ID 3) in locale 1033 (English (US)), so FontForge generates a unique ID like “FontForge 2.0 : FreeSerif : 4-4-2017”. The patch fixes the problem (for one of the two fonts anyway) because it adds an explicit unique ID, so FontForge does not need to generate one.

You can see the problem by opening the generated OTF in any program that lets you see the contents of the name table.

David Corbett <dscorbett>
Sun 26 Jun 2016 09:07:19 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Hi Bernard,

Where exactly do you see this date?  I can't find it.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Fri 24 Jun 2016 11:33:14 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi Bernard,

I am surprised by all of this, and I don't see how your patch would fix that.  Could you explain?

It really only happens in the one font face FreeSerifBoldItalic?

What version of FontForge do you use to build the font?

Have you looked at recent SVN for FreeFont?  There are many changes since 2012.

Sorry for the delay in writing... for unknown reasons, Savannah stopped sending me emails!


Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Sun 17 Apr 2016 12:23:16 PM UTC, original submission:  

I found that a date like 1-1-2016 is embedded
in FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf
when rebuilding the freefont package (on openSUSE Factory)
and that this can be avoided by applying the attached patch.

Bernhard M. <bmwiedemann>

 

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file #36953:  reproducible.patch added by bmwiedemann (3KiB - text/x-patch - proposed patch)

 

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