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Type 1 driver updated
From: |
David Turner |
Subject: |
Type 1 driver updated |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:55:41 +0100 |
Hello,
Some important updates to the Type 1 driver today. It now features:
- automatic Unicode charmap synthesis, based on the glyph names
found in the font. This nearly completely avoids the use of
special encoding files
- you can now read AFM files with "FT_Attach_File( face, filename )"
in order to add kerning metrics to a given Type 1 font (these are
the only metrics read from the AFM, the other are ignored).
Still to be done:
- more testing & debugging. Especially, T1_Done_Face is empty,
so the driver leaks memory for now..
- support for multiple masters. Is anyone interested in this ?
What interface could we use ??
- discard the old, debugged code, for the new loader (which uses
pattern matching for ultra-fast reads of the Type 1 font, and
drops the hinter completely).
Note that a new module, called "psnames" has appeared. It is used to
convert a glyph name to a Unicode value, as well as synthetize unicode
charmaps automatically.
- David
- Type 1 driver updated,
David Turner <=