diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index fb2960d..4c08f1c 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-remove intermediate save for asc/des
-
 bug found in baidu(ubuntu...), bug_chn
 
 precise link dest
diff --git a/src/HTMLRenderer/text.cc b/src/HTMLRenderer/text.cc
index ee6e43c..221d2ab 100644
--- a/src/HTMLRenderer/text.cc
+++ b/src/HTMLRenderer/text.cc
@@ -385,24 +385,6 @@ void HTMLRenderer::embed_font(const string & filepath, GfxFont * font, FontInfo
         }
     }
 
-    if(0)
-    {
-        /*
-         * [Win|Typo|HHead][Ascent|Descent]
-         * Firefox & Chrome interprets the values in different ways
-         * Trying to unify them 
-         */
-        // Generate an intermediate ttf font in order to retrieve the metrics
-        // TODO: see if we can get the values without save/load
-
-        auto fn = str_fmt("%s/f%llx_.ttf", param->tmp_dir.c_str(), info.id);
-        add_tmp_file((char*)fn);
-
-        ffw_save((char*)fn);
-        ffw_close();
-        ffw_load_font((char*)fn);
-        ffw_metric(&info.ascent, &info.descent, &info.em_size);
-    }
     {
         auto fn = str_fmt("%s/f%llx%s", 
                 (param->single_html ? param->tmp_dir : param->dest_dir).c_str(),