Re: [Freetype] WINFONTS support

[Vadim Plessky]

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 21:05, Thomas Charbonnel wrote:
|  Hi,
|
|  I'm in the process of migrating a Windows NT TCP/IP client server db
|  application to Linux using Wine. One of the problems I encounter is that
|  the client application seems to be very old and relies on a .FON special
|  font to draw custom windows and tables in text mode. To cope with this I'm
|  considering adding .FON support to wine through FreeType (as suggested on
|  the wine-devel mailing list, FreeType supporting the .FON format). I wrote

Hi Thomas!

As you are going to hack WINE anyway, what about such solution for your 
problem:
1) load .FON file into PfaEdit (http://pfaedit.sf.net)
2) export it to BDF or TTF with Embedded bitmaps (File->Generate Fonts)
3) hack WINE to support TTF font with embedded bitmaps (or BDF), if such 
support is not there yet.

Than you would have much more reliable solution working smoothly on Linux 
(*NIX, *BSD).

I just tried such scenario (import FON, export BDF) with 8514oem.fon from my 
Windows 98 - it works!
(and that  8514oem.fon is dated by 1987, BTW! )
 
My ftview (2.1.4) has some problems to diaply .FON files, though.
Both original 8514oem.fon and produced by PfaEdit 'Fixedsys.fon' look like 
corrupted (as I said above, BDF displays fine).

I have better success with seriff.fon (MS Serif).
At least one size of TTF file with embedded bitmaps was rendered fine with 
ftview.
 
|  a little test program to load the .FON I'm interested in and dump
|  informational fields from the FT_WinFNT_HeaderRec struct. My problem is
|  that the FT_GetWinFNT_Header function fails with error code 6: Invalid
|  argument. Is it possible that some .FON files are not supported ? I
|  noticed too that the FT_Face_New call always succeeds, regardless of the
|  face_index argument. It sounds to me like the specific .FON file I need
|  has a strange format (it can be very old, back to the late 80's). Any idea
|  about this ? I'm using FreeType 2.1.4.
|
|  Regards,
|  Thomas
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Best Regards,

Vadim Plessky
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