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I am trying to subroutinize a large font using MakeOTF and it crashes/errors out with a memory problem, or hangs. What can I do?

April 26, 2017crashes errors font hangs large makeotf memory problem

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I am trying to subroutinize a large font using MakeOTF and it crashes/errors out with a memory problem, or hangs. What can I do?

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This is usually only a problem with Chinese/Japanese/Korean fonts that have several thousand glyphs. These typically need not only a heap memory allocation of 400 – 700Mbytes of heap for the Python interpreter, but also require a more of an arcane memory allocation called a stack. You will need to adjust the stack, and possibly heap size, allocated to the python interpreter. To do so, you will need the Microsoft COFF binary file editor (a part of Visual C++) called EDITBIN.EXE. Use EDITBIN’s /HEAP and /STACK as needed.