Re: [ft] Telling if a font has TrueType outlines

[mpsuzuki]

Hi Michael,

On Mon, 2 May 2005 12:04:20 +1000 (EST)
Michael Day <address@hidden> wrote:

>> However, usually "CFF OpenType" has "CFF" table instead of "glyf" table,
>> you can exclude it by "CFF" existence, I suppose.
>
>I found that CFF OpenType fonts are loaded by the "cff" driver rather than
>the "truetype" driver, so perhaps checking the driver is still a more
>convenient method of distinguishing fonts rather than trying to load
>tables.
>
>It seems that if the font driver is "truetype", then the font must be what
>is commonly referred to as a "TrueType font", without any PostScript
>outlines, regardless of what tables it has. I think :)

Ahh, thank you very much for your investigation notice.
It seems that "truetype" driver is for TrueType instruction rastrizer,
rather TrueType font format handler (it might be "sfnt"), therefore,
your pointing out is correct!

Regards,
mpsuzuki