[ft-devel] Re: Truetype Collection fonts

[Deron Kazmaier]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> [Please stay on the list.]
>
>   
Hi,
Sorry. Seems the default for this list is to reply to the author and not 
the list.
> > The issue has been resolved on my end, but for your own information
> > ftmac.c (amongst other things) will load various resource based font
> > data and massage the data into a linear representation that
> > resembles the on-disk format of a Windows TrueType/Type1 font.  That
> > is (one) of the "conversions" that goes on and is useful for not
> > only rendering but outputting to PostScript/PDF files.
> >     
>
> The same we do for reading Type 42 fonts which are converted to a TTF
> internally more or less.  So you are talking not about font conversion
> between different formats but conversion between different wrapper
> formats (as described in FreeType's `formats.txt' file) -- is this
> correct?
>
> I still think that the result of a wrapper conversion is internal to
> FreeType and can't be exposed to the public so that it is useful for
> other applications.  However, I don't mind to provide hooks to that
> data if it can be done in a sensible way -- can provide patches for
> that?
>
>
>     Werner
>
>   

Yes, conversion between wrappers. It would be a pretty simple set of 
changes to ftmac.c at least. I'm still working on a few other font 
related problems and when I get done I'll see what could be done that 
would be beneficial external to freetype not just "bloat". With the 
changes that (mpsuzuki?) is making to generate a mac api less ftmac.c 
perhaps that would make for a good time to implement? I would be happy 
to commit something back if someone else would find it useful.

I have not looked into fonts from zip files.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

Deron