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Re: [Devel] font format corner cases
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Devel] font format corner cases |
Date: |
Wed, 22 May 2002 09:18:54 +0200 (CEST) |
> The MacBinary, AppleSingle and AppleDouble specs can be found
> on my website (see signature) as I am the maintainer of most of
> these formats...
>
> As to how to support them - the big issues is that the code in
> ftmac.c assumes that you actually have the Mac OS present as it
> makes native API calls, so that even if you had the data, it
> wouldn't help since we need to the OS to do things for us (like
> parse the resource fork format!).
The formats of both AppleSingle and AppleDouble look straightforward,
and I believe that parsing them wouldn't be too hard. What do you
think? Do you time to work on this?
Werner
[Devel] FreeType documentation comments, Graham Asher, 2002/05/23