Re: [Freetype] How to dump a font into PostScript?

[Lars Clausen]

On 01 Mar 2002, Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Michael Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Hi again,
>> 
>> the source code of xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html)
>> is probably a better source than PDFlib. PSOutputDev.cc converts
>> a PDF file to PS and can embed Type1 and TrueType fonts.
>> Hope this helps.
> 
> It did indeed help, though there were some differences to overcome.
> Thank you!  Dia can now (rudimentarily) print Type1 fonts to postscript
> files.
> [...]
> Here, I'd want to use the FontName, but I can't see where in FreeType to
> access that.  I'd rather not have to parse the font file, it's so
> redundant when FreeType already does that.  Is it dropped, or just hiding
> somewhere?

Nevermind, I found it.  Now to figure out why the boundingboxes are all too
small.

-Lars

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