Getting "Unimplemented type: 7" while decoding PBF generated via node-fontnik

[fnicollet]

Hello,
A week ago, I added an issue "Is it possible to retrieve every font used in mapbox-gl-js for every charset-range?" (#809), @yhahn redirected me to this script https://github.com/mapbox/node-fontnik/blob/master/bin/build-glyphs which worked after a bit of fiddling.
I download the Open Sans variants from http://fr.fonts2u.com/open-sans-bold.police (if you scroll down, you can download the whole thing).
Then I ran those commands:

build-glyphs "Open Sans Regular" glyphs/regular/
build-glyphs "Open Sans Italic " glyphs/italic/
build-glyphs "Open Sans Semibold " glyphs/semibold/
build-glyphs "Open Sans Bold" glyphs/bold/

Which gave me PBFs files for every variant. But when I try to use them with mapbox-gl-js, I get an error "Unimplemented type: 7" here:

Protobuf.prototype.skip = function(val) {
    // TODO: bounds checking
    var type = val & 0x7;
    switch (type) {
        /* varint */ case Protobuf.Varint: while (this.buf[this.pos++] > 0x7f); break;
        /* 64 bit */ case Protobuf.Int64: this.pos += 8; break;
        /* length */ case Protobuf.Message: var bytes = this.readVarint(); this.pos += bytes; break;
        /* 32 bit */ case Protobuf.Int32: this.pos += 4; break;
        default: throw new Error('Unimplemented type: ' + type);
    }
};

When I compare the files:
https://mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/gl-glyphs-256/Open%20Sans%20Semibold,%20Arial%20Unicode%20MS%20Bold/0-255.pbf
is 83Ko while mine is only 42Ko

Is there something I am doing wrong? Are there different "Open sans" in the wild and I don't have the right one?

Thanks for your help,
Fabien

[fnicollet]

Just realised that most of the other ranges are 1ko pbf, probably empty. The font I downloaded must only contain the latin range or something. Still, would be nice to know which font mapbox used

[fnicollet]

Side question, are all the character ranges needed/used? because if i grab the PBF from Mapbox from 0 to 65533, the total file size is about 30Mo, which seem quite a lot!

[jfirebaugh]

Can you provide a link to one of the PBFs that generates the error?

[fnicollet]

Hello,
here is the complete archive of what the script generated (with the 4 variants):
http://rg.to/file/6e760dbd3125f0cbedd7553066d0f0eb/fontnik_Open_sans.zip.html

Fabien

[mikemorris]

Unimplemented type: 7 is usually related to PBFs not being compressed as expected.

[jfirebaugh]

Yeah, the pbfs are gzip compressed and need to be served with Content-Encoding: gzip (or gunzipped before serving) -- that's probably the issue.