Re: [ft-devel] Convert glyphs to/from CIDs?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I have a CID-keyed font, and I need to obtain the underlying glyphs in
> the font for CIDs and vice-versa.  Is there a public function which
> does this already?

What exactly do you mean?  [This is FreeType 2.3.6] If you call
FT_Load_Glyph for a CID-keyed font, you enter the CID, and you get
back the glyph structure.

> As an aside, I was surprised to find that the "num_glyphs" field in
> FT_FaceRec doesn't provided the number of CIDs for CID-keyed fonts,
> but instead the number of glyphs.

This is a documentation error.  It *does* provide the number of CIDs
for CID-keyed fonts.  I've just fixed it in the documentation.


    Werner