Re: [Devel] Telling font types from an FT_Face?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 4:58 PM +0100 12/17/03, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>  > >Note that this API doesn't deal with the differentiation between
> >  >OpenType/TrueType and OpenType/CFF fonts.
> >
> >         For my needs, I need to know this differentiation - so yes, it
> >  would have to handle this as well.  Which again, might be better
> >  done at load time and filling in the FT_Face...
>
> Quite essential IMHO is to identify a CID-keyed font.  What do you
> think about adding a flag FT_FACE_FLAG_CID_KEYED?

        But that only handles a single case.

	Why not simply provide a list of known/standard types (with 
"subtypes") that can be retrieved using a single standard API call?


LDR
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