Re: [Devel] Re: Distiller produced PFA problems

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > Before integrating FreeType into our application, we were using
> > Ghostscript to rasterize fonts.  Ghostscript rasterizes the
> > Distiller produced PFA's okay, and everything looks alright (at
> > least on the surface).  I took a peek at some of the Ghostscript
> > code and documentation.  It looks like they are well aware that
> > some Type 1 fonts don't have a FontInfo dictionary.  I can see
> > where they have defined a dummy FontInfo, and they may also be
> > defaulting some missing data. Something similar in FreeType would
> > be great, but at the very least returning an error code along the
> > lines of FT_Error_Missing_FontInfo would allow me to try to fill
> > in some blanks and make use of what is there.
> 
> I'll leave this up the the main FreeType guys to decide.  Either way
> (dummy values, or allow one to fill these values in) is fine with
> me...

Being compatible with Ghostscript is not a bad idea IMHO -- Peter
Deutsch knows PS fonts rather well :-)

I favor a dummy FontInfo.


     Werner