[scribus] Font problem - broken glyph

[Tornóci László]

On 09/10/2009 05:46 PM, Fórján Tamás wrote:
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> I have a problem with one of my font files, it won't be loaded by Scribus neither 1.3.5.1 nor 1.3.6svn-090827.
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> My problematic font is DIN Condensed, a commercial TrueType font I bought from MyFonts.com. Its foundry is ParaType, release year 1998.
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> The error message of Scribus:
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>    Font E:\Work\Fonts\DinCondensedETT.ttf has broken  glyph 65535 (charcode 65535)
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> I have also found a similar problem by someone on this mailing list, with a different font, but referring the same glyph number (see http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/2007-August/022902.html). I'm no font guru myself but the charcode suggests the problematic character is the very last one in the file, possibly not a character I'd normally use.
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> Is there a way to "force" Scribus to still load the font file? If not, what else can I do? Contacting the font vendor or foundry is possible the longest path I could take.
Not that I know of. I would open and try to edit the font file with 
fontforge (an excellent open source font editor available in most linux 
distributions). Maybe you can fix it that way.

				Yours: Laszlo