[Devel] Re: Distiller produced CFF fonts

[Tom Kacvinsky]

I think aside from the problems you are seeing with side bearings and
font matrices, the seac issue is the last thing to do.  Oh yeah, there is
also the question of parsing hte CharSet and Encoding tables in a CFF font.
I need to get going on that!

As for a comprehensive list, ask David.  He is the the one responsible for
the code in the CFF driver.  I just bug hunt. ;)

Tom

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Blinn, Eric W wrote:

> 
> Tom,
> 
> I appreciate all the info. Since the CFF driver is a relatively recent
> addition (since Beta 8 anyway), there may be other known limitations or
> "to-do" items I'm not aware of. Is there a standard location where these
> kinds of things are documented? 
> 
> Let me know if you think of anything else along those lines. It might help
> me localize some of these problems as I come upon them.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
> 
> > ----------
> > From:       Tom Kacvinsky[SMTP:address@hidden
> > Sent:       Wednesday, November 22, 2000 4:28 PM
> > To:         address@hidden
> > Subject:    [Devel] Distiller produced CFF fonts [was: CFF problems]
> > 
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > > 
> > > Yes, the CFF font came from a Distiller produced PDF 
> > > file. For my particular application, all the CFF fonts 
> > > are coming from Distiller produced PDF files, so that 
> > > has pretty much been my frame of reference while 
> > > looking into these issues.
> > > 
> > 
> > Then beware of accented characters.  If the base Type 1 font uses seac to
> > make
> > the accented characters, this is transferred over to the the CFF font by
> > distiller (the CFF spec allows for making accented characters by using a
> > multiple
> > argument version of endchar).  Parsing of such beasties is not yet in
> > FreeType.
> > I believe it is on the list of things to do.
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
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