Re: [Freetype] Re: Freetype digest, Vol 1 #843 - 11 msgs

[Werner LEMBERG]

From: Jon Harrop <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Freetype] Re: Freetype digest, Vol 1 #843 - 11 msgs
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:44:14 +0000

> On Tuesday 24 February 2004 4:34 pm, Werner wrote:
> > Hershey fonts aren't valid Type 1 fonts and aren't supported by
> > FreeType.  What you see is the exact contents of a pfb font, but
> > this isn't enough for rendering -- you need a control file like
> > hrplr.gsf which expands the strokes (those fonts don't contain
> > contours at all).
> 
> Ooh, ah ooh.  Ok.  It looks like Freetype doesn't use
> FT_Outline_Decompose to get at the contours for font rendering but,
> instead, reimplements it as FT_Stroker_ParseOutline in
> "ftstroker.c".  That code says that it supports "open contours".  So
> Freetype can stroke open contours?  So support for these Hershey
> fonts is almost there except for using the ".gsf" files to interpret
> the ".pfb" files?  What font formats does Freetype support which
> need stroking?

David gave an answer in another mail.


    Werner