Hi,
I've had a problem with a friend's pixel-style display font (see attached image) in OTF/CFF (PS flavor) format. As you can see, he uses a high number of subpaths in each glyph, which in turn yields a
limitcheck error on my laserprinter when I try to print it. AFDKO's checkOutlines says,
Too many supaths! (sic)
Maximum number allowed is 64 Error: exception failure. A subpath is
what in FontLab is a contour: a complete closed line, says the help file. But I couldn't find further information on the (maximum) number of contours in a glyph. Can someone point me to reference material, a technote maybe?
According to
Adobe's Type 1 Font Format, chapter 3.4 (Character Paths), we've likely hit the limits of what the printer can swallow in terms of so-called flattened paths. However, it doesn't say what precisely a flattened path is. I suppose a PS renderer subdivides a curve into straight line pieces before rasterizing, but that's just my guess. Again, can someone enlighten me about the nature of flattened paths, or point me to a good source?
In case any of you ever run into this problem, converting the outlines to TrueType curves, turning them clockwise and saving the font as a TTF seems to be a working solution so far.
TIA, Eric.
