Re: [Devel] Compressed PCF fonts

[Francesco Zappa Nardelli]

KP> ...forward seeks are easy, backwards seeks just force a rescanning
KP> of the file from the start...

I love this world...  Every day something new to learn...

DT> The FreeType PCF driver could mimic this behaviour too (and I
DT> believe it could also include its own LZ77 decompressor), but
DT> we're speaking of a complete rewrite here..

KP> I don't think it would require a complete rewrite, just a slight
KP> IO abstraction with some additional code stuffed into the middle
KP> of the process.

Keith is right.  Yesterday evening I shortly experimented with custom
streams and zlib.  I wrote just an hack, but this approach appears
feasible, and does not require any change to the pcf driver.  As soon
as possible, I will try to figure out a clean way to create the
compressed stream inside the FreeType library.  I will let you know.

-francesco