Re: [PATCH] GDI32: accept TTF-fonts without OS2 table

[Nikolay Sivov]

On 11/9/18 4:24 PM, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Walter
>
> fonst partially embedded in PDFs often do not contain an OS2 table.
> Wine did not accept these fonts and uses another fonts as replacement
> This leads often to completely unreadable documents as the glyp index does
> not match the one of the choosen replacement font.
>
> This patch accepts such fonts and inserts checks where wine assumed
> that the OS2 table does exist.

I tested with a randomly selected font with OS/2 table removed. Windows 
font utility installs it just fine, I sent a fix for directwrite side of 
this [1].

For gdi32 I think we'll need something similar, to fill metrics using 
available tables.
> Regards,