Re: [ft] Can Freetype process a glyph file directly

[Ammar ul hassan]

> Uh, oh, I haven't looked at the VFlib source code since many years.  I
suggest that you directly contact Hirotsugu, CCing this list.

Thank you. BTW i have already contacted him and got the answer what i was
looking for.

> I'm not interested in linking with VFlib but rather integrating the .gf
and .pk
stuff (and probably portions of the .vf support also via attachments
similar to
FreeType's .afm support) into FreeType as new modules.

I'll look in detail about this part.

Thankyou

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> > I have read about VFlib and got to know that it is also a font
> > library that handles many font types and can make glyphs as bitmaps
> > from these different font formats like .ttf, .pfb, .gf, .pk etc.
>
> Yes.
>
> > As .gf and .pk files are actually bitmap font formats (the latter is
> > the more compressed file of .gf file which can be obtained by using
> > programs like GFToPK), my question is:
> >
> > How does this VFlib library actually support .gf and .pk formats?
>
> Uh, oh, I haven't looked at the VFlib source code since many years.  I
> suggest that you directly contact Hirotsugu, CCing this list.
>
> > What is the main task of this library if a .gf or .pk file is input?
>
> IIRC, the main task of VFlib is to handle TeX's virtual files (VF).
> There are extensions to cover virtual CJK fonts also.  Today, however,
> there are other mechanisms (pTeX, XeTeX) that do the same, more or
> less, for outline formats – the era of bitmap fonts is mostly over.
>
> > If a helping module is created in FreeType that is linked with Vflib
> > for any processing of .gf and .pk files, what we can achieve as the
> > end product (getting bitmap information, used for previewing in X
> > windows etc. )?
>
> No idea.  Just to avoid misunderstandings: I'm not interested in
> linking with VFlib but rather integrating the .gf and .pk stuff (and
> probably portions of the .vf support also via attachments similar to
> FreeType's .afm support) into FreeType as new modules.
>
>
>     Werner
>