Re: CID + CFF drivers available

[Tom Kacvinsky]

I can supply some; I can't give a timeframe, I am busy with AMS work.
BUt I have Adobe's OT FDK, and can make OpenType fonts of the Computer
Modern and AMS fonts.

Alternatively, one can use Distiller 3.0 or later to make PDF files
and fully embed the fonts -- then extract the FontFile3 streams --
they will be compliant CFF (but not OpenType) fonts.  Cool, huh?

You might want to join Adobe's OTF beta program.  Details on request
(to David only) off the list.

Regards,

Tom

On Wed, 31 May 2000, David Turner wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>   I have recently added two drivers to the FreeType 2 directory
>   hierarchy:
> 
>     src/cff:  is a still very experimental OpenType/CFF driver.
>               it's grossly incomplete and shouldn't work for now
>               (or else, let me know ;-)
> 
>     src/cid:  supports Postscript CID-keyed fonts. This driver
>               works and loads glyphs nicely. However, it doesn't
>               load CMap files for now, which means that it's still
>               more or less unuseful (well, the fonts display well
>               in "ftview" anyway :-)
> 
>   I thus invite you to test the CID driver extensively. The current
>   source code has only been used with the Asian Font Pack that comes
>   with Acrobat Reader.
> 
>   I also welcome pointers to an OpenType/CFF font for testing !!
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> - David
>