Re: [ft-devel] FT_Get_PS_Font_Private in CFF driver

[Michael Toftdal]

On 28/05/2013, at 20.28, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> The structure of a CIDFont is as follows:
> ...

Ahh, CIDFonts. I'm sorry. I had the FontSet notion in the CFF specification 
mixed up with the sub-font notion for CIDFonts in the FreeType code.


> However, the FDArray data is *completely internal*
> to FreeType and not publicly visible.  It is *not* possible to
> directly access a CIDFont's subfont.  In other words, your suggestion
> of using a subfont index doesn't work.

OK. So for CIDFonts I see the problem.
But for non-CID, CFF Fonts where the CFF FontSet notion is mapped to the 
FreeType "face" notion, wouldn't it still make sense to be able to access the 
private dict of a face, as it is possible for the plain Type1 fonts? This was 
actually what I was trying -- the sub-font index parameter I suggested is in 
fact the face_index parameter in FT_New_Face (right?).


> I'll ask someone from Adobe which value is used for StemV if the
> particular font is a CIDFont.

Thanks!


Regards,
Michael