Re: [Chicken-users] freetype egg still being developed?

[Matt Gushee]

Alex Shinn wrote:

> > Like the subject says ... the latest version of freetype in the main
> > egg repo is 0.1. Has Alex, or anyone, done anything beyond that? I am
> > going to need a significant increase in functionality in order to
> > implement font embedding for the PDF egg I am working on.

> What other functionality do you need?

The main thing that I *know about* at the moment is that I need access 
to metrics without loading the glyphs, which for TrueType and OpenType 
fonts means accessing the OS/2 table. But I suspect there will be more.

I should mention that I have a very ambitious project in mind, which 
entails support for complex documents in arbitrary (human) languages, 
including, especially, CJKV ... so it will be important to avoid any 
unnecessary glyph loading.

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Matt Gushee