Re: Release Objectives

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Frank Trampe wrote:
> As we start to plan for a Fontforge release in the next month or two, I want
> to make sure that we have fixed as many big bugs as possible before said
> release. I would appreciate reminders on this thread of any bugs in the
> current master branch that cause highly undesirable behavior (such as
> crashes) and are easily reproducible. I'm happy to look at any other
> seemingly low-hanging fruit as well.

I'm not sure it fits the definition of low-hanging fruit, but incorrect
results from "Remove Overlaps" have been the highest priority issues for
me for as long as I've been involved with the project.

These problems are reasonably easy to reproduce, usually cross-platform,
the effects are visible in the created fonts (which I think qualifies as
"highly undesirable behaviour"; fonts processed by FontForge are unusable
in the worst case), and there's no predictable way to work around such
problems by changing the workflow, nor other free software known to me
that could substitute for FontForge in doing the remove-overlap function.
-- 
Matthew Skala
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http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/

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