Re: pdftex core dump when including certain pdf files

On 17 July 2016 at 01:25, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote:

>     All these parameters *were* integers back then.
>
> Fine, but irrelevant to my question to Thanh.  There are special cases
> throughout the pdftex source code for StemV, but no other font
> parameter.  That was my question; not about real vs. int.
>
>     produced fully-conforming PDF files
>
> The PDF we write is conforming if it writes integers, as far as I can
> see.  The crucial thing from my point of view is to do something
> reasonable when reading floating point, i.e., not crash.
>
> As for properly preserving floating point values in all of these vluaes,
> I'm sure we all agree that is desirable.  Patches welcome.  -k
>

​the real question one should ask is why StemV is required, since it's
already included in the font itself.​


​Thanh​