[ft-devel] [PATCH] Document that FT_Get_X11_Font_Format is an intrinsic call

[Ralph Giles]

Working on the the freetype integration in ghostscript again, I went
looking for a way to identify whether an FT_Face was a "Type 1" or
"TrueType". There is a function which implements this, confusingly
named FT_Get_X11_Font_Format() because it was originally added (in
2002) for the benefit of XFree86, even though the documentation is
aware that PDF implementations also need this feature. I was concerned
about this being platform-dependent and traced through some of the
code; it is completely intrinsic to freetype and doesn't depend on X11
at all.
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Please consider applying the attached documentation patch to clarify this.

Going further, what people think about making this part of the core
api as FT_Get_Face_Format()? Given the broader usage nowadays I think
that makes more sense than having it only in an optional module.

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0001-Document-that-FT_Get_X11_Font_Format-is-a-general.patch
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