Re: [Bug] Styleset names overwrite copyright in 'name' table

Abraham Lee <[email protected]> Wed, 02 May 2018 17:37:52 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.fontforge.devel
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Thanks Frank!

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 10:44 AM Frank Trampe <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's definitely not right. I'll look into it.
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Abraham Lee <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Recently, I generated a font that has numerous style sets. I never really
>> noticed before that I could give them human-readable names in the Font Info
>> > Styleset Names dialog box, but I thought I'd take the opportunity to do
>> that this time. However, after doing that and generating an OpenType (CFF)
>> font, upon re-opening the OTF in FF, I get an error popup that says there
>> are multiple entries for the "Copyright" entry of the TTF "name" table. In
>> fact, all of the style set names were assigned to this field, so FF
>> repeatedly asks me to pick one until there are no more conflicts. Then the
>> rest of the font loads successfully.
>>
>> I couldn't see anywhere this was reported already. Is this a known bug? I
>> can live without doing this, of course, but it also would be nice to have
>> it.
>>
>> Best,
>> Abraham
>>
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