Re: [Devel] font format corner cases

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 12:20 AM +0200 5/24/02, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>  >   The big issue with support Mac OS fonts on non-Mac platforms
>  > is the need to parse the resource fork portion of the fonts in order
> >  to replace the Resource Manager API calls that currently exist in
> >  ftmac.c
>
> Hmm, what do those calls do?  I can imagine that we add some
> replacement routines within a `#ifndef macintosh ... #endif' block to
> parse the interesting resource and data forks.

	They parse the structured data of the resource fork to find 
the necessary data contained therein.   The resource fork format is 
well defined and folks have done this before.

	The real question is whether there is enough interest to 
warrant all the work.


LDR
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