Re: [ft-devel] freetype on mac os X question/curious comments.

[suzuki toshiya]

Hi,

I guess it is related with the handling of Suitcase format font.
Please let me check.

Regards,
mpsuzuki

On 12/19/2013 03:47 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Hi Werner,
> 
> I seem to recall that you don't have much access to Mac OS X; nonetheless, I 
> wonder if you have an idea what's the context of two curious comments in some 
> source code I came across with (it is the cairo bridge code in R, if you want 
> to know).
> 
> This concerns Mac OS X's shipping version of freetype - it has
> two comments about broken index, and also swapped styles.
> 
> ==================
>          /* some FreeType versions have broken index support,
>             fall back to index 0 */
>          if (!FT_New_Face(ft_library,
>                   (const char *) file, index, &face) ||
>              (index && !FT_New_Face(ft_library,
>                         (const char *) file, 0, &face))) {
>              FcFontSetDestroy (fs);
> 
> #ifdef __APPLE__
>              /* FreeType is broken on OS X in that face index
>                 is often wrong (unfortunately even for Helvetica!)
>                 - we try to find the best match through enumeration.
>                 And italic and bold are swapped */
>              if (style == 2) style = 1; else if (style == 1) style = 2;
>              if (face->num_faces > 1 &&
>              (face->style_flags & 3) != style) {
>              FT_Face alt_face;
>              int i = 0;
>              while (i < face->num_faces)
>                  if (!FT_New_Face(ft_library,
>                           (const char *) file,
> ============================
> 
> The background is just that I will at some point attempt to rebuild that
> bridge with up-to-date version of freetype, and wonder if it is important.
> 
> Hin-Tak
> 
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