[Devel] Re: Mac fonts: getting multiple faces from FOND?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 12:09 PM -0600 2/12/03, Dan Williams wrote:
> How do you get access to all the rest of the 'sfnt' faces?  From my 
> reading of the code, you can _never_ get an aface back that contains 
> _any_ of the other faces, like 20647, 5177, 1404, or 5669.  
> parse_fond() contains code to deal with this:
>
>     fond       = (FamRec*)fond_data;
>     assoc      = (AsscEntry*)( fond_data + sizeof ( FamRec ) + 2 );
>     base_assoc = assoc;
>     assoc     += face_index;  /* add on the face_index! */  <----- 
> ALWAYS will be 0 by here
>
> But by this point, FT_New_Face_From_dfont() has already set 
> face_index to 0 before it passed face_index to 
> FT_New_Face_From_FOND()!!

        Oh, that would indeed be an issue - I hadn't noticed that...


> If this behavior of face_index always being 0 is intended, then why 
> is this comment here (from Oct 2001)?
>
>      Thanks to Paul Miller (address@hidden) for the fix
>      to load a face OTHER than the first one in the FOND!

	So it sounds like the dfont() method needs to do something 
similar to what we've done in the other methods to allow face_index 
to be correct.


> Our problem with OpenOffice.org is that we use Freetype for font 
> rendering, but do our own font management.  So therefore, we have to 
> get all 'sfnt' resources in a Mac font file, but we can't make 
> Freetype see them at all.

	If you've already got a Handle to the sfnt, why not just do 
what Joost suggested and call New_Face_From_SFNT()??  (once we export 
it)


LDR
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