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I looked at kaiu.ttf or mingliu.ttf and the outlines looked nothing like the correct glyphs. Whats wrong?

April 26, 2017glyphs kaiu.ttf looked mingliu.ttf outlines wrong

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I looked at kaiu.ttf or mingliu.ttf and the outlines looked nothing like the correct glyphs. Whats wrong?

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Some truetype fonts (kaiu and mingliu are examples) do not store the correct outline. Instead they rely on using the instructions to move points around to generate the outline. The outline does not appear to be grid-fit at all, just positioned. FontForge will not process the instructions as it reads the font. In most fonts this would be the wrong thing to do, and I don’t know how I could tell when it needs to be done…