No FontName - ttf2pt1.exe had status 1

[moritzpschwarz]

Hi there,

hoping you can help me!
I'm trying to install the attached Myriad Pro Regular.ttf (see zip file below) font using the extrafont package - but I'm getting the following error:

Scanning ttf files in C:/Users/.../AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Fonts/ ...
Extracting .afm files from .ttf files...
C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\Myriad Pro Bold.ttf : No FontName. Skipping.
C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\Myriad Pro Regular.ttf : No FontName. Skipping.
Found FontName for 0 fonts.
Scanning afm files in C:/Users/\.../Documents/R/win-library/4.0/extrafontdb/metrics
Warning messages:
1: In system2(ttf2pt1, c(args, shQuote(ttfiles[i]), shQuote(tmpfiles[i])),  :
  running command '"C:/Users/.../Documents/R/win-library/4.0/Rttf2pt1/exec/ttf2pt1.exe" -a -G fAe "C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\Myriad Pro Bold.ttf" "C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpGWMXXV/fonts/Myriad Pro Bold"' had status 1
2: In system2(ttf2pt1, c(args, shQuote(ttfiles[i]), shQuote(tmpfiles[i])),  :
  running command '"C:/Users/.../Documents/R/win-library/4.0/Rttf2pt1/exec/ttf2pt1.exe" -a -G fAe "C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\Myriad Pro Regular.ttf" "C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpGWMXXV/fonts/Myriad Pro Regular"' had status 1

I traced the error and it always occurs when the extrafont function ttf_extract gets to line:

ret <- system2(ttf2pt1, c(args, shQuote(ttfiles[i]), shQuote(tmpfiles[i])), stdout = TRUE, stderr = TRUE)

I also tried running the ttf2pt1.exe -a -G fAe from the command line (with the correct path of course) and received the following error:

Auto-detected front-end parser 'ttf'
 (use ttf2pt1 -p? to get the full list of available front-ends)
Processing file C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\Myriad Pro Regular.ttf
**** Unknown File Version number [4f54544f], or not a TrueType file

Any ideas on how to fix this?
Many thanks!!

[moritzpschwarz]

font to replicate.zip

[leesbiology]

Had the same issue. Solved it by installing the older version of Rttf2pt1 by:

library(remotes)
remotes::install_version("Rttf2pt1", version = "1.3.8")

best,

[vankesteren]

It would be great if this were fixed at some point @wch. I would love to help but I'm really not familiar enough with the particularities. I looked around in the package if this could be an easy fix but I'm unsure.

In general, this package is used in the extrafont package only to convert ttfs to .afm files. Is there an easier to maintain alternative for that?
This seems way too simple to be true right?

pdfTex has ttf2afm. Depending on the license, that might be an alternative?
oh, nevermind, I just noticed this in the source of extrafont:

# Previously, I tried using ttf2afm to do the afm extraction,
# but the afm files created by ttf2afm didn't work with R.
# The command for ttf2afm was:
#   ttf2afm Impact.ttf -o Impact.afm

We could try to revisit this?

[wch]

@vankesteren Unfortunately I no longer have time to do maintenance on Rttf2pt1 or extrafont.

If someone out there would like to take over maintaining these packages, please contact me.

[fabiolexcastro]

@vankesteren Unfortunately I no longer have time to do maintenance on Rttf2pt1 or extrafont.

If someone out there would like to take over maintaining these packages, please contact me.

hi wch, I wonder how to solve this problem, I have follow these steps but it didn't work. I have this message

"No FontName. Skipping"

[sbibauw]

@fabiolexcastro The current fix has been mentioned above:

Solved it by installing the older version of Rttf2pt1 by:
library(remotes) remotes::install_version("Rttf2pt1", version = "1.3.8")

[fabiolexcastro]

I have already done that. But it didn't solve the problem :(

[christophvw]

@wch

What about reverting:
e43996c

memory was allocated on the stack:

•   double seg[2][2 /*X,Y*/],
  

Now uninitialized memory is used:

• double** seg,

How should this work?

[wch]

I don't think the previous code allocated any memory on the stack, because seg is a parameter passed into the function.

[pmetzner]

The issue seems to be in wch/extrafont@483a125. Perhaps the enc2native call strips the information from the TTF file that is then missing?

[wch]

Hi all, I found some time and energy to look into this problem and I have a possible fix in #20.

To test it out, you can run:

library(remotes)
remotes::install_github("wch/Rttf2pt1#20")

For more information about the cause of the problem, see #19.