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More thoughts on FON files |
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Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:45:56 -0800 |
Hi Werner,
I'm still not on devel, so could you forward this for me?
Hi David,
I have just added code to pfaedit for reading FON files and I
noticed the following things in freetype's FON reader
(src/winfonts/winfnt.c):
1) The fnt header structure differs between version 2 (0x200) and
version 3 (0x300)
In particular the last 6 fields are not present
in version 2 (that is flags and everything
after it are omitted).
2) According to microsoft's online docs, the printed docs are wrong
about the size of the final field in the version 3 structure.
Microsoft's online docs say that this field should be 16 bytes long,
while the printed docs say 4. I can't test this, not having any version
3 files.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q65123
(search down for dfReserved1)
So I propose the following patches. These have not been well tested. As
I said I have no version 3 fonts to test with.
winfnt.patch
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