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Re: [Devel] using PFR fonts with freetype2 from CVS


From: Sven Neumann
Subject: Re: [Devel] using PFR fonts with freetype2 from CVS
Date: 23 May 2002 01:23:44 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7

Hi,

David Turner <address@hidden> writes:

> There is nothing special to do to use PFR fonts. Note however that the
> code in FreeType is limited to the font file format that is described
> in various publicly available documents, like the DAVIC Reference.
> These font files typically have a 4-byte header that says "PFR0"
> 
> The TrueDoc web site had a few fonts that exhibited a different format
> some years ago. These had a header that said "PFR1", and according to
> mails that BitStream representatives sent to the address@hidden
> mailing list (a long time ago), they seem to be called "compressed PFRs"
> 
> I don't have more information, but I suppose that the fonts that come
> with the FontFusion SDK are not "PFR0", but "PFR1" or even something
> else (PFR2, PFR3 ??). There is no way FreeType is going to support
> these, since their specification isn't public.

you are right, they seem to be "PFR1" (at least that's what the header
says). Thanks for your reply, I'll do some more tests with other fonts.


Salut, Sven


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