RE: [Devel] Selecting the Unicode charmap by default

[Ian Brown]

I discovered this inconsistency with the documentation the hard way too, just yesterday in fact. I was using Arial Type 1 PFB which comes with Acrobat 5.0.

Ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Asher [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:56 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Devel] Selecting the Unicode charmap by default
>
> I thought - perhaps wrongly - that FreeType drivers were supposed to
> select
> a Unicode charmap by default after a face is opened. But there seems to be
> an inconsistency here. The TrueType driver does this but the Type 1 driver
> does not. In fact it selects *no* charmap at all. I think that all drivers
> should select a Unicode charmap when loading a face. Can anybody comment?
>
> By the way, I tested this by loading a well-known free PFA font and trying
> to find the glyph index for 'G':
>
> This didn't work (it gave the glyph index 0):
>
> ft_error = FT_New_Face(library,"\\font\\misc-fixed.pfa",0,&face);
> index = FT_Get_Char_Index(face,'G');
>
> but this did (it gave the glyph index 40):
>
> ft_error = FT_New_Face(library,"\\font\\misc-fixed.pfa",0,&face);
> FT_Select_Charmap(face,ft_encoding_unicode);
> index = FT_Get_Char_Index(face,'G');
>
> Graham Asher
>
>
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