[Devel] Custom encodings with T1 fonts?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

I'm currently working with Derek Noonburg to replace Xpdf's 
(<http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf>) current use of FT1 and T1lib with 
FT2.   Replacing FT1 with FT2 for use on TrueType fonts was pretty 
easy and is working fine in an internal build, but Derek is having 
some problems with Type 1 and Type 1 C fonts.   Here is what he wrote 
me:


At 3:46 PM -0800 1/7/01, Derek B. Noonburg wrote:
> Using FreeType 2 for Type 1 and Type 1C fonts is going to be a problem.
> For Type 1 fonts, FT2 sets up an "Adobe custom" cmap, which is supposed
> to use whatever encoding is given in the font file, and which is exactly
> what I want.  Except that some embedded Type 1 fonts have a completely
> bogus encoding, which is ignored in favor of the encoding given in the
> PDF Font dict.  T1lib lets me directly set an encoding, which is how I
> got around it there.  Do you know if there's any way to do this with
> FT2?  Also, Type 1C (CFF) fonts show 0 cmaps (face->num_charmaps after
> calling FT_New_Face) - I haven't looked into this yet.


So, does anyone have any thoughts for Derek?


Leonard
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