Re: [Devel] Dingbats in FreeType?

[Martin Sevior]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 10:56, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 12 o'clock on May 5, Martin Sevior wrote:
> 
> > Here is some code to map the Adobe encoded points to their
> > unicode values. I greated this file by copying and pasting from the
> > Abobe website.
> 
> I learned that the 'custom' adobe encoding is not standardized, so instead 
> of using the encoded values, I pulled the zapf dingbats glyph names and 
> built code to use that.  It's gonna be slower, but it shouldn't break when 
> faced with other fonts using custom encodings.
> 
> > What do I have to do to make the glyph display with XFT2 as it is
> > shipped with say, RH 9?
> 
> You should be able to check out current fontconfig CVS, then install it on 
> top of the fontconfig from RH 9 and things should "just work".
> 

Cool! Will try with the encodings map I just posted to the list.

Martin

> -keith
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Martin Sevior <address@hidden>
University of Melbourne