Re: [Devel] Advice on Font Subsetting

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 07:50 AM 3/25/2004, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> I still think that FreeType, especially the PS parser, is not the
> appropriate tool for your project.  It simply ignores too much of the
> data in a font.  Your parser should act as careful as possible to
> avoid font problems.

        Agreed - which is what I found out when trying to use FT for the 
same purpose...


> To speak frankly, no.  It doesn't fit into FreeType's scope, being a
> rasterizer for various font formats.
>
> On the other hand, it would be great to have a library which accepts
> fonts in various formats and a list of glyph indices, and which
> outputs a subsetted font covering exactly the glyphs in the list.

        It's interesting to note that T1lib actually had a call that is 
supposed to do exactly this (T1_SubsetFont()) - unfortunately is not all 
that up to date and not supported.  But that too might be a starting place...


Leonard

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