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Re: [ft-devel] GSoC status update.


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] GSoC status update.
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 09:59:25 +0200 (CEST)

> The actual shape of the glyph with index zero doesn't matter; for
> example, you could construct it on the fly (i.e., while loading the
> GF file), say, a bitmap that contains a hollow box as with most
> TrueType fonts, scaled to the proper font size.
> 
>    XXXXX
>    X   X
>    X   X
>    X   X
>    XXXXX

Actually, the BDF driver would also benefit from such a feature since
many fonts don't contain the `DEFAULT_CHAR' property...


    Werner



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